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[ UK /kənfˈɛs/ ]
[ US /kənˈfɛs/ ]
VERB
  1. confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
  2. admit (to a wrongdoing)
    She confessed that she had taken the money
  3. confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith

How To Use confess In A Sentence

  • Day after day thousands of people die of confessing their loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • Certainly his confessions might still be reliable, along with the confessions of Abu Zubaydah and other confederates being interrogated in secret.
  • Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction.
  • The normal human desire to rid one's self of a tormenting secret, to "exteriorize one's rottenness," finds satisfaction on an exalted plane in confession to God, or to his appointed ministers. Human Traits and their Social Significance
  • As time passes, around 2,000 women involved have gradually died, with only 30 of them still alive - still anxious about the possible end and that they may never hear the government's true-hearted confession.
  • You died near ninety, still unbelieving, unconfessed, and unreceived.
  • Open confession is good for the soul. 
  • The supporting stories have a much sharper bite, including a return to his painfully confessional autobiographical style.
  • Lord McLuskey says they manufacture false confessions, plant evidence and commit perjury.
  • Indeed, Mr Kenyatta confessed that a number of his allies had asked him not to attend the harambee "because their people were still in IDP camps. AllAfrica News: Latest
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