Definition: (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution;a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party;a document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century);a public declaration of your faith;an admission of misdeeds or faults;
Hyponyms: shrift, Augsburg Confession, self-accusation, self-condemnation Derivational Morphology:
confess, concede, profess, squeal, shrive
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