confessions

/K AH0 N F EH1 SH AH0 N Z/

noun

1
The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
“Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail.”
2
A formal document providing such an admission.
“He forced me to sign a confession!”
3
The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
“I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.”
4
Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
5
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.

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