Similar words: confess, profession, professional, congressional, session, recession, impression, depression. Meaning: [-eʃn] n. 1. an admission of misdeeds or faults 2. a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party 3. (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution 4. a public declaration of your faith 5. a document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century).
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91. He was determined to rid the world of sin, partaking in confession for up to 16 hours a day.
92. The argument from intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. Ayn Rand
93. People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
94. The district attorney has a videotape of you making that confession!
95. He doubted whether half as many went to confession more than once or twice a year.
96. On the tenth day of the seventh month there was a special annual ceremony of confession and atonement for sin.
97. And in some one as private as Langford, I find the bare fact of this confession remarkable.
98. They may assert, for instance, that crucial evidence was covered up or a confession was coerced.
99. When we return to the apartment, Maria has made a full confession and is asking Glass to help Leonard out of Berlin.
100. By making a full confession, Reeves hoped he would be more kindly treated by the authorities.
101. From there any further travel makes a beeline to confession,(sentencedict.com) the embarrassed monologue in a deserted bazaar.
102. With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
103. In a confession to police, Davis reportedly said he had not been in Petaluma before the night he allegedly kidnapped Polly.
104. But confession was too awful to contemplate, even with Rose.
105. The transcripts depict Davis weeping with remorse at several points during the confession.
106. Zacchaeus made a public confession of his past and declared he was ready to make amends.
107. Sergeant Thompson wrote down Smith's confession and asked him to sign it.
108. The attorney said the former detective coerced a confession from a co-defendant, who implicated his client, Howard McCowan.
109. Ray withdrew his confession, saying that he had been coerced by the police.
110. At home I made my absurd confession to Barbara, weeping at the dinner table, crying in my highball.
111. Some of the publishers cashing in on the lucrative confession craze profess to being disturbed by it.
111. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
112. I once heard the confession of a merchant from the Portsoken who wished absolution for killing his wife.
113. It did not follow from this that the confession should therefore be excluded, however.
114. In the course of the trial one Glazkov made a false confession which he later retracted.
115. Zohra Labrooy was the ideal audience for reminiscence or confession.
116. By the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, moral laxity in the administration of confession by the clergy was evident.
117. He never made the service because of the crash - and instead found himself offering a confession to police.
118. All this bears closely on Stavrogin and his so-called confession.
119. It is quite clear that this thread of non-incrimination is at variance with the recent emphasis on obtaining confession evidence.
120. In a confession made to police shortly after his arrest, Davis said he had killed the victim with a kitchen knife.
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