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Beknow :: Beknow (v. t.) To confess; to acknowledge.

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

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

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

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

Confessedly :: Confessedly (adv.) By confession; without denial.

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

Confessionist :: Confessionist (n.) One professing a certain faith.

Shrive :: Shrive (v. t.) To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.

Confession :: Confession (n.) Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime..

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

Confession :: Confession (n.) A formulary 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..

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

Probator :: Probator (n.) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence..

Confessionary :: Confessionary (n.) A confessional.

Render :: Render (v. i.) To give an account; to make explanation or confession.

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment..

Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy..

Confession :: Confession (n.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.

Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.

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