confession

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).

   “Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person could be jailed.”

2. isim A formal document providing such an admission.

   “He forced me to sign a confession!”

3. isim The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now also termed the sacrament of reconciliation.

   “I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.”

4. isim Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.

   “With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

5. isim A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
6. isim The act of professing one's love.