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Confessary :: Confessary (n.) One who makes a confession.

Blushingly :: Blushingly (adv.) In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly..

Confesser :: Confesser (n.) One who makes a confession.

Confessing :: Confessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confes.

Shriving :: Shriving (n.) Shrift; confession.

Confessionalism :: Confessionalism (n.) An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.

Shrive :: Shrive (v. i.) To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution..

Peccavi :: Peccavi () I have sinned; -- used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense.

Profess :: Profess (v. i.) To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

Confession :: Confession (n.) An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted..

Confessionary :: Confessionary (n.) A confessional.

Confessant :: Confessant (n.) One who confesses to a priest.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

Shrive :: Shrive (v. t.) To confess, and receive absolution; -- used reflexively..

Approvement :: Approvement (n.) a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States..

Shrift :: Shrift (n.) Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it..

Confitent :: Confitent (n.) One who confesses his sins and faults.

Formula :: Formula (n.) A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.

Acknowledgedly :: Acknowledgedly (adv.) Confessedly.

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