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confession
/kənˈfɛʃən/
noun
The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
"Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail."
A formal document providing such an admission.
"He forced me to sign a confession!"
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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