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confession   (TTS Sound)

The noun confession has 5 senses

• confession -- (an admission of misdeeds or faults)


• confession -- (a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party)


• confession -- ((Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution)


• confession -- (a public declaration of your faith)


• confession -- (the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century))