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

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

Submission :: Submission (n.) Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error.

Auricular :: Auricular (a.) Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest..

Symbolism :: Symbolics (n.) that branch of historic theology which treats of creeds and confessions of faith; symbolism; -- called also symbolic.

Pray :: Pray (v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving..

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

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

Confession :: Confession (n.) Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.

Confiteor :: Confiteor (n.) A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.

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

Prayer :: Prayer (v. i.) The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer..

Confessionary :: Confessionary (n.) A confessional.

Confessional :: Confessional (n.) The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others..

Boot :: Boot (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland..

Torture :: Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel..

Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.

Confessionalist :: Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession..

Admission :: Admission (n.) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry..

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.

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