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Jubilee :: "Jubilee (n.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist..

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

Confessional :: Confessional (a.) Pertaining to a confession of faith.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

Confessionary :: Confessionary (n.) A confessional.

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

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.

Rack :: Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons..

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

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

Confessor :: Confessor (n.) A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.

Acknowledgment :: Acknowledgment (n.) The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.

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