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Confession in a sentence
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Confession meaning
- The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
- A formal document providing such an admission.
- 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.
Synonyms of Confession
Using Confession
- The main meaning on this page is: The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad). | A formal document providing such an admission. | 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.
- Useful related words include: admission, gospel, church doctrine, religious doctrine.
- In the example corpus, confession often appears in combinations such as: his confession, confession to, the confession.
Context around Confession
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Confession
- In this selection, "confession" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, augsburg, full, frequent, xxi, secrets and placed stand out and add context to how "confession" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 29 the confession was about and a confession by the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "confession" sits close to words such as arrows, howe and malaria, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with confession
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
According to a Belgian media report, Giorgi has made a confession. (11 words)
Poulson required this victim to make confession to the sexual assaults – to Poulson, who heard the boy’s confession. (19 words)
He's been writing about confession and now openly writes about Holy Communion which is generally preceded by confession. (19 words)
As for the signature bag of four Gingerbread Squares topped with a light sugar icing ($12) that we shared and took home, one of my dining companions called me with this confession, “If I were to have an affair with a cookie, this would be it. (46 words)
Thus, the challenge is to get the confession without use of fear, force, favour, and I will add fame, since often, police, to quell public outcry, by all means gets an accused and elicit a confession which later does not hold up in court! (44 words)
A confession by the defendant is treated like any other piece of evidence, and a full confession does not prevent a full trial from occurring or relieve the plaintiff(s) from its duty of presenting a case to the trial court. (41 words)
Thus, the challenge is to get the confession without use of fear, force, favour, and I will add fame, since often, police, to quell public outcry, by all means gets an accused and elicit a confession which later does not hold up in court! (44 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was alleged that the priest had sex with the woman after threatening her to break the “seal of confession” to reveal some of her confession secrets to her husband.
Duterte recalled his confession to a priest at the Ateneo high school while speaking at an event in Kidapawan City on Saturday, December 29. The confession was about a sexual experience he had with a household helper who was asleep.
It is unclear if they found it as a result of his confession or if it the discovery prompted Vence’s confession.
Thus, the challenge is to get the confession without use of fear, force, favour, and I will add fame, since often, police, to quell public outcry, by all means gets an accused and elicit a confession which later does not hold up in court!
Evidence Act section 85 states that the court shall not consider any confession to be valid unless the confession is proven to be: made voluntarily, given independently; and made without duress, coercion, undue influence or inducement.
Poulson required this victim to make confession to the sexual assaults – to Poulson, who heard the boy’s confession.
A confession by the defendant is treated like any other piece of evidence, and a full confession does not prevent a full trial from occurring or relieve the plaintiff(s) from its duty of presenting a case to the trial court.
Apology of the Augsburg Confession XXI 4-7 citation Augsburg Confession XXI 1 The Lutheran Churches also have liturgical calendars in which they honor individuals as saints.
For example, a judge might hold a "voir dire" to determine whether a confession has been extracted from a defendant by an unfair inducement in order to decide whether the jury should hear evidence of the confession or not.
He's been writing about confession and now openly writes about Holy Communion which is generally preceded by confession.
However, the confession was at odds with facts known by police, such as the time of the murders. citation Under the "Bruton rule", his confession could not be admitted against his co-defendants and thus he was tried separately.
Loreto Publications, 2008 This appears to be an anecdote, appropriate for a sermon recommending frequent confession, placed in an age when twice annual confession was the norm.
Rather than telling him to find another time or another priest to have his confession, the Pope left the mass to hear his confession and then returned to continue the mass.
Soon after, the Jesuit priest Oswald Tesimond told Garnet he had taken Catesby's confession,Haynes (2005) writes that Tesimond took Thomas Bates' confession.
Their robust Calvinism was publicized in such confessions as the London Baptist Confession of 1644 and the Second London Confession of 1689.
Abakanowicz once said that her imposing headless statues stemmed from the “belief that art is not a decoration but a confession, confrontation, warning”.
According to a Belgian media report, Giorgi has made a confession.
According to the enemy’s confession, an anti-armor missile managed to penetrate a military mechanism equipped with a missile interception system, instantly killing four soldiers and leaving two seriously injured.
And so I have decided the best thing I can offer councillors, the council executive, and staff members, is an apology and the confession of my old sins.
As for the signature bag of four Gingerbread Squares topped with a light sugar icing ($12) that we shared and took home, one of my dining companions called me with this confession, “If I were to have an affair with a cookie, this would be it.
Common combinations with confession
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his confession 18×
- confession to 17×
- the confession 17×
- confession and 16×
- confession of 13×
- of confession 10×
- false confession 8×
- confession or 7×
- confession is 7×
- confession was 6×