confess

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.

   “I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!”

2. fiil To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

   “Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven.”

3. fiil To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.

   “If we confesse our sinnes, hee is faithfull, & iust to forgiue vs our sinnes, and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse.”

4. fiil To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.

   “1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.”

5. fiil To disclose or reveal.

   “Tall thriving trees confess;d the fruitful mould.”

6. fiil To profess one's love.