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Confess
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Confess meaning
To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed. | To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in. | To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
Example sentences (20)
Arguably, the worst case is when only one party is guilty: here, the innocent one has no incentive to confess, while the guilty one has a strong incentive to confess and give testimony (including false testimony ) against the innocent.
As a movement it is diffuse and vacillating and shows a distinct reluctance to candidly own and freely confess of the interpretive tradition bequeathed to us by the English Reformers.
As per these laws, the legal age of marriage is 18. He also informed that according to the law of Pakistan, if someone wants to convert her/his religion, they must appear in court and confess it in front of the law.
Begin rebuilding trust by keeping promises or even making a point to confess small mess-ups either before they are found out, or in lieu of pretending like they never happened.
But, as a dog person who enjoys the trails at CU South two-three times a week, I confess I am in no hurry to lose access to that wonderful 2-mile loop.
But, when it comes to the little quality-of-life things like sound deadening and suspension tuning, I confess it seems a step behind some of the more established carmakers’ EVs.
Dunn made several more attempts to get Winders to confess.
Even committed fans like Kit will confess to some fatigue.
Even when some petty criminals are caught, the Nigerian Security Forces will force them to confess to being IPOB or ESN members.
Floyd is accused of pressuring poll worker Ruby Freeman to confess to voter fraud crimes she didn't commit.
Frumkin arrived in 2019, so cannot be blamed for the damaging episode in which Metro had to confess holding too little capital against its loan book (unimpressed regulators issued a fine).
Going back to Newell’s has always, I will confess, been my preferred coda to Messi’s career.
He should confess to a double error in ignoring Ringrose in 2017 and 2021.
However, Simran – who identifies as a trans woman and is working to free the accused – told local media that the arrested individuals were forced to confess.
I confess I was one of the people who got taken in by the movie’s fake reality.
I’ll be open and confess that, following the previous three years, I never imagined I would find someone special in my life.
I’ll be quite candid with you here and confess I’m not clear what WhatsApp is.
I must confess that I do not go to Kirkwood Avenue at all now, where the church is located, so I was rather stunned to see that at Nicks, the epicenter of all things IU, they were flying a Purdue flag.
I must confess, when pondering what adventures my seven-year-old son and I could get up to over a long weekend (courtesy of two school inset days) a trip to Amsterdam wasn’t somewhere that immediately sprang to mind.
In addition, Murphy also took a minute to confess that waiting so long to bring Axel Foley back took its toll.