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confession

/kənˈfɛʃən/
noun
  1. The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).

    "Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail."

  2. A formal document providing such an admission.

    "He forced me to sign a confession!"

  3. The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.

    "I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done."

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