How To Use Confess In A Sentence

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.
Day after day thousands of people die of confessing their loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate.
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
And when I see people in the court, I must confess I watch them. KICK BACK
One widow, she said, was carrying around $900,000 in uncashed cheques; another confessed to spending $15,000 on designer clothes.
In time, I confess, even I became a convert.
The offender was dealt with leniently as he had confessed his crime.
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.
As they ran the risk of losing the advantages they had been given if they went back on their previous statements or retracted their confessions, their statements were open to question.
-- 'Sire, my confessor was my friend; it would be very painful to me.' Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
It is very obvious if confessions were exerted under torture, then they are null and void.
The appellant's whole case on the confessions to the police officers was that he was highly suggestible.
We allow our feelings to flow out towards him in adoration, confession, thanksgiving and praise.
These accused have also admitted in their confession that top officials of the food and civil supplies department including the minister were involved in the racket.
In what was said to be a signed confession he admitted carrying the rucksack containing explosives but insisted he never intended to kill anyone.
Walk in and confess to that mutt, mac taylor?
I have to confess, this is not my first case of doorstepping. Times, Sunday Times
He claims his confession was extracted under torture.
He made a full confession to the police.
There, he was humble enough to confess to himself, was a chartless, shoreless sea, about which he knew nothing and which he must nevertheless somehow navigate. Chapter XV
Finally, although I didn't hear that Weiner was facing any charges, I'm also taken by this day-after-the-confession "we're going to follow you around the neighborhood" shot in the NYT in which the press not only frames Weiner as someone officials would call "a person of interest," but, like a guy out on bail, we see the visual media starting to own not just the title of paparazzi, but also the "lurker" role. Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Media's Weiner Pictures: Who's Getting Dirty Now?
Frol has satisfied me plenty, but I confess that there be three or four skirts hereabout I would not mind lifting. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
His criticism of the Moscow frame-up , and his exposure of the psychological mechanism of the "voluntary confessions", are excellent.
Disney has released the first trailer for the big screen adaptation of Confessions of a Shopaholic .
The self-confessed "bushie" from Mudgee, NSW, has overcome the greatest of adversaries life has repeatedly thrown at him. Undefined
And we would feel constrained to confess ourselves poor diagnosticians if George Bernard Shaw, the enfant terrible of nimble wit in contemporaneous literature, succeeded in disproving the existence in himself of the same strain of blood as coursed in the veins of Heinrich Heine. The Social Disability of the Jew
Julie left the invitation to confess all hanging in the air like a tripwire. FALLEN WOMEN
It is a relief, he says, to confess to the private consultant that the refuge he once sought in art for his depression and regimented obsessive nature, he now finds in the bottle.
It must be confessed, however, that certain influences darkened the style even before it had reached maturity; chief among these was a gloomy hierarchical splendour, and a ritual rigidity, which to-day we yet refer to, quite properly, as Byzantinism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
The 'work hard, get good grades and go to college to get a job' mantra is dead," says twenty-something self-confessed hustler Scott Gerber, author of Never Get a "Real" Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke (Wiley, December 2010). Emily Bennington: 'Entitled' to What, Being Unemployed?
One senses they'd rather have a confessional book.
In the rest of the review, this translates to the criticism that The Confessions of Max Tivoli is too clever, The Dew Breaker too "exotic," Little Children too jokey. Politics and Literature
They confessed themselves to have made a great mistake.
Religion, especially confessional Christianity, has always concerned itself with authority and certainty.
As a complete man, constant, generous, full of honest courage, as a hardy follower of Thought wherever she might lead him, above all, as a confessor of that Truth which is forever revealing itself to the seeker, and is the more loved because never wholly revealable, he is an ennobling possession of mankind. Among My Books First Series
As early as 1532, in a famous memorial meant for Clement VII, he called for the repression of the friars, priests, preachers, confessors, and books he saw as responsible for the spread of heretical ideas among the Italian populace.
Not yet, however, was the power of the keys instituted, which is derived from Christ's Passion, and consequently it was not yet ordained that a man should grieve for his sin, with the purpose of submitting himself by confession and satisfaction to the keys of the Church, in the hope of receiving forgiveness through the power of Christ's Passion. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The confessional language is stunning in its clarity: ‘I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.’
Have you been coerced into giving this confession by any government agency or official?
As a self-confessed occasional HYS commenter on the BBC, it seems even their 'moderators' are tarnished by the bias and the 'house rules' are taken from their 'little labour book of creating wooly, abusable, and loopholed and rules and laws'. OPEN THREAD
What about 18 USC 3501 (b) (1) making the delay relevant to admissibility of a confession? The Volokh Conspiracy » Shahzad and Miranda Rights
These should include the Lord's Prayer, a confession and absolution, a short reading from the Gospels with a request to our Lord for his help, and an invocation of the Holy Spirit.
Personally, I must confess to a sneaking admiration for his acumen, if not for his artistic integrity, but I would not attempt to justify his methods.
Martyrs did not entirely disappear, but they were different from their late antique predecessors; they might be bishops killed in political strife, missionaries killed by pagans, or confessors being ‘living dead’.
We confess with sadness that Christians and our institutions have too often scandalously failed to uphold the institution of marriage and to model for the world the true meaning of marriage.
Nic Holc-thompson, Havant Hampshire I must confess I don't really understand why the flapjacks must now be square or rectangular.
But I must confess that during this blizzardly storm the Castle hall is a little draughty. To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze
Starting new ones will only compound the problem: the traditionalist is in the same boat as the liberal to the extent that both are prisoners of a denominational market (p. 205), even when appeal is constantly being made to the model of Reformation confessio - or even early Christian martyrdom. Ramsey Lecture - Durham - 'The Lutheran Catholic'
He is the only confessed believer in this symposium of essays.
The preservation of privacy within trust and the successful work done by chaplains in inspiring self-revelation by confessants is not a complex process.
I usually paired them with clam-diggers and a draped tee, but now, adding the finishing touch to my thoroughly traditional gear, I had to confess that they actually looked very attractive. Indie Girl
‘It all leads to the same place - fear of the unknown, fear of letting go, facing your own death,’ she has confessed.
Having confessed, according to the terms of the text, that the field or ground is not the Church, but the world, he proceeds, with a very strong animus against what he calls puritanism or separatism, [14] to argue in the usual way against every attempt to purify the visible The Parables of Our Lord
I have to confess I'm a bit of a sucker for musicals.
Rockwell, too, is no slouch in the cool stakes, having already teamed up with George Clooney for crime capers, Welcome to Collinwood and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
He had recently collared a car thief who confessed to breaking into 100 cars in one night.
My husband confessed he'd been having an affair with a woman in his office.
The transcripts depict Davis weeping with remorse at several points during the confession.
The great standard, in the Maiden's wars, was to be used for the rallying of all her host; the pennon was a signal to those who fought around her, as guards of her body; and about the banner afterwards gathered, for prayer and praise, those men, confessed and clean of conscience, whom she had called and chosen. A Monk of Fife
In Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief, diamond-nabber Bill Mason notes notes a strange security trend: people will spend big bucks to have a whole host ultra-sophisticated locks on their front doors -- but they'll put something flimsy on the back door, or leave the windows unlocked altogether. Defense Tech: Lock the back door, too
The self-confessed drug addict admitted possessing heroin with intent, but claimed that he was only looking after it for another person.
But I speak with practical accuracy when I give that title to such views as on the whole affirm the attainableness here below of a spiritual condition in which man needs no longer confess himself as now a sinner, and in which his attention tends to be drawn more to his perfectness than to his imperfections of condition. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
She did bring herself , finally, to confess, and to confide in me.
Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude, from the society of every creature, Chapter 5
Joe had never been privy to her thoughts and fears and dreams and giggling drunken confessions in the same unguarded way Chrissie had. FALLEN WOMEN
The virtual disappearance of the traditional hearing of confessions in the box has led to the penitential services being the alternative way.
Curiously, familiars do not appear in continental witch confessions. Times, Sunday Times
Potter confessed City's second-half showing could not match that of the first but believed Radcliffe deserved credit for stemming the flow of goals conceded before grabbing a late consolation ten minutes from time.
Self-confessed shoplifter, embezzler and small-town deceiver. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Sam, a self-confessed tinhorn, “expected to find masses of silver lying all about the ground and glittering in the sun on the mountain summits.” LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
He died on Christmas Day, 1946 — ironically appropriate for a disbeliever who once confessed to be studying the Bible “for loopholes.” Five People Born on January 29 | myFiveBest
Catholics no longer go to confession as a regular practice, and many Protestant services have eliminated or downplayed the confession of sins.
The convictions rest solely on disputed witness and confessional statements.
Every year on St Paul's day, while the soloist on the ambo sang the melodies of the fourth vigiliary responsory, the Pope, entering, as we have said, into the camera confessionis, withdrew the censer - which had been let down through the hole on to the tomb of the apostle at this same Office in the preceding year, and introduced another also full of burning incense. The Station at St Paul
But they can not perform Catholic sacramental duties, such as hearing confession, offering Communion or giving last rites.
Edward the Confessor granted the land to the Abbey of Westminster, and it was disafforested in 1218. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London
The near-opaque video quality and confessedly basic skill level don't make this an extra you'll get a lot of mileage out of.
All I know about the operation so far is what I heard when we were monitoring your conversation with Ryan in the confessional. CODE BREAKER
Her statement is tantamount to a confession of guilt.
Confession is the first stage of coming to terms with what you've done.
They have been subjected to the most degrading treatment and have been tortured to extract confessions from them.
The friars and their native assistants produced an immense number of grammars, dictionaries, catechisms, confessional manuals, sermon outlines, chronicles, and even religious dramas.
I confess, sir, " he said, "that you talk like a scoundrelly socialist.
6 'CONFESSIONAL OP VALOMBRB* the wind midst the poisonous intertex - tpre of fumatory and night-shade. The confessional of Valombre
The self-confessed music lover, who has been studying it formally since he was a teenager, cannot sing enough about love.
This isn't to knock all priests who hear confessions - many are compassionate and have a gift of knowing just what to say.
Our bank manager confessed to being prohibited from putting anything in writing, which is why he expects clients to speak to him directly.
Besides the goat offered for the people the blood of which was sprinkled before the mercy seat, the high priest led forth a second goat, namely, the scapegoat; over it he confessed the people's sins, putting them on the head of the goat, which was sent as the sin-bearer into the wilderness out of sight, implying that the atonement effected by the goat sin offering (of which the ceremony of the scapegoat is a part, and not distinct from the sin offering) consisted in the transfer of the people's sins on the goat, and their consequent removal out of sight. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
They confess sins, do penance and engage in bhakti and karma yoga to raise consciousness.
The writers of these shows cannot let an episode pass without coercing a confession or lying their way into an illegal search.
Lor, feeling a little embarrassed about confessing something like that, turned away from Kite and stared at her current work of bandaging.
Confession cleanses the soul.
Innocent's interdict forbade all ceremonies save baptism of infants and confessions for the dying: it operated from 1208 and John was excommunicated in 1209.
It is important that we go to confession and receive Holy Communion, attend Mass and visit the cemetery to gain a plenary indulgence for the Holy Souls.
This is when hundreds of communists and non-communists ‘confessed’ to make-believe crimes in show trials.
A fault confessed is half redressed.
Most murderers are easily apprehended and readily confess.
I thought it fitting to share with you an image of St. Lawrence from the basilica dedicated to him in Rome, St. Lawrence outside the Walls, as well as the confessio beneath the high altar of the same basilica, where his relics are kept and venerated. Feast of St. Lawrence
But despite all these misgivings, I must confess I fell for the movie hook, line and sinker.
But I confess that I am somewhat accable, by all that has befallen us. Rodney Stone
Christian doctrine identifies the rules by which Christians use confessional language to define the social world that they indwell.
He'd take her into his arms, confess that he was madly in love with her and kiss her passionately.
He rejected confessional Christianity and allowed religious toleration in his kingdom.
Zohra Labrooy was the ideal audience for reminiscence or confession.
Like someone in the confessional, I wanted to tell her everything. TIME OF THE WOLF
It is quite clear that this thread of non-incrimination is at variance with the recent emphasis on obtaining confession evidence.
Because as soon as you step in, you become aware of a huge sea of noise stretching away before you: whispers, murmurs, bangs, shouts, swearing, poems, confessions, exhortations.
She was not flattered by Mr. Elton's confession, only repulsed at this inferior man daring to address the fine Miss Woodhouse in such a manner.
For a moment he had an impulse to confess, if for no other reason than to hear the detective tell him he'd done nothing wrong.
Kate may be a self-confessed dag who loves hanging at home in her tracky dacks and footy jumper but after our image-conscious judges exposed appearance as a weakness, Kate has presented herself as a beautiful diva and tirelessly worked at her stage presence. Kate upsets Lindsay Lohan + Wins Aussie Idol
Not only do you have to be a teacher, you must be a parent figure, confessor, psychologist, counselor, public relations expert, and a role model for the community.
He was taken before the headmaster and made to confess.
He had been told that morning by the boy's mother, Lazette Cherry, that he had confessed to her that he had inappropriately touched his three-year-old half-sister a few months previously.
The convictions rest solely on disputed witness and confessional statements.
She was hoping that her being there; like a confessor or guardian angel, someone who was not judging and not changing, would help them in someway.
A confession, I am not very knowledgable, that is why I come to this forum to ask the following questions in the hope someone can explain and clarify my confusion. Wilders Security Forums
According to St. Basil, forty soldiers who had openly confessed themselves Christians were condemned by the prefect to be exposed naked upon a frozen pond near Sebaste on a bitterly cold night, that they might feeze to death. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
He's a self-confessed rebel, a ‘poet-in-the-sky’, a prestidigitator who can do conjuring tricks and pick a pocket or two.
The priest heard his confession.
I used to go to confession every Saturday as a child.
-- In this solemn and impressive prayer, in which they make public confession of their sins, and deprecate the judgments due to the transgressions of their fathers, they begin with a profound adoration of God, whose supreme majesty and omnipotence is acknowledged in the creation, preservation, and government of all. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
When he discusses his participation in a roadgeek-sponsored map-reading contest, he confesses that he "wimped out halfway. Lost in a Good Atlas
Seven per cent confessed to assuming another person's identity through forging their signature on letters or cheques.
He confessed to other crimes subsequent to the bank robbery.
I found it all very confusing, I must confess.
There the mayor attempted to arrest them, and Buckingham had to pull off his beard, confess his identity, and claim that as admiral of the fleet he was off to arrange an impromptu inspection at Dover.
In addition to offering many opportunities for individual auricular confessions, twice or three times a year the parish offered the opportunity for communal services of forgiveness.
First mainly inspects the oral confession the main body question, including oral confession definition, integrant part, historical inspection as well as value analysis.
The priest heard her confession and granted absolution.
In Brown's late paintings and in the work Gillespie has been making in recent years, symbols are used less for confession and purgation than for spiritual instigation and invocation.
Treating terrorism like organised crime, investigators used informants, turncoat terrorists, telephone bugs and confessions to build the case.
Many Christians regularly confess their guilty actions and thoughts to a priest.
Central Office experts had to confess that their harshest forecast had been far exceeded.
He slipped into the oaken confessional box, closed the door and sat down, his head close to the grill. CONFESSIONAL
She lowers her voice confessionally. Times, Sunday Times
How can one person, no matter how noble, confess the sins of another?
In 1925 father was baptized upon the confession of his faith in Jesus Christ and accepted as a member in the Neuendorf Mennonite Church.
The law would allow paramilitaries to give themselves up and confess to their human rights and drug trafficking crimes.
_ Nothing is an adiaphoron when confession and offense are involved. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
I know it isn't a funny subject but I had to laugh at your confession about eating disorders, I instantly imagined comic book guy from The Simpsons sayin, "worst bulemic...ever". Never Say Diet
He has to wait in the church for the other confessors to finish, which leaves him plenty of time to keep meditating on the wretchedness of his sins.
For as thou mayest call a carcase a dead man, but not simply a man, so I confess that the vicious are evil, but I cannot grant that they are absolutely. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
Now, since I was going to have to tell him sooner or later in whose favour I was making the deed of gift, I decided to confess the truth there and then.
Confession is the first step to repentance.
More than a quarter of men are now self-confessed shopaholics, with 28% of them admitting to loving the thrill of buying new things.
There be of them diverse personages of good haviour (_sic_): and it is said amongst the same, that after they have delivered their confession to the King, that the spiritualty of The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
A wife confess to her husband that she has committed adultery. He forgives her, continues to live with her, and has sexual relation with her.
She felt cleansed of her sins after confession.
Talmudists speak much, and hyperbolically enough: which nevertheless they confess to be turned long since into miserable barrenness; but are dim-sighted as to the true cause of it. From the Talmud and Hebraica
I confess that I am on friendly terms with about eight owners, and half of them are press chappies who ended up with a leg of a horse each as a result of a drunken outing to Aintree, York or wherever.
He confessed himself totally ignorant of their plans.
The priest will then assign a ‘penance’, which usually consists of a few prayers to say in the church after leaving the confessional.
The marquise found Desgrais at the appointed spot: he gave her his arm then holding her hand in his own, he gave a sign, the archers appeared, the lover threw off his mask, Desgrais was confessed, and the marquise was his prisoner. Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
Or, if confession was allowed, the penitent was not allowed to receive Communion (at the time, the two sacraments were usually taken together).
A video pre-confession from every bomber could still not explain why the subbasement was blown up ... 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing
Adams' biography confesses to concentrating less on the later years and this deprives the book of a conclusive judgment about its subject.
No one wants to hear a bunch of pubescent boys confessing their love repeatedly in about thirteen songs on one album.
If we've ever had internal conflicts about cheating or wanting to cheat, had sexual longings for or experiences with someone of the same sex, imagined being with a prostitute or had pedophilic fantasies, watched porn or coveted a neighbor's husband or wife, we're going to be drawn -- in guilty fascination or fearful hostility -- to public disclosures of both forbidden sexual behavior and it's humiliating confession. Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Everything Said About Anthony Weiner Is Bull
It was the minority view that the appeal to the fifth commandment instead of to Chapter 31 of the Westminster Confession (which defines and limits the powers of synods and councils) was incorrect.
It is the habit of men of all nations to want to have things both ways; the Englishman is unfortunately so unable to express himself, _even to himself_, that he has never realized this truth, much less confessed it -- hence his appearance of hypocrisy. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
At the risk of seeming to fantasticate I confess that the Pope's having built the viaduct -- in this very recent antiquity -- made me linger there in a pensive posture and marvel at the march of history and at Pius the Italian Hours
Her secret work for social justice was an endless `Hail Mary ', penance for her self-confessed sins. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The King sent for one of his own chaplains that made the squire confess and do his houselling right well. The High History of the Holy Graal
She combines confessional prose with cultural commentary, narrative with argument, plain declarative sentences with lovely lyrical passages.
Even quite wealthy individuals confess to conjuring up images of going cold and hungry.
His confession was extracted under torture.
He confesses to another, personal reason for preferring the incumbent.
Going out for meals was a rare treat, usually confined to birthdays, or on holiday where the atmosphere in the hotel dining room was almost churchlike, with everyone talking incredibly quietly, like priests in the confessional. Fathers & Sons
The surviving leaders of the conspiracy were tortured in prison to make them confess.
Placed against the church's altar below the triptych with its fixed panels of the baptism, Lord's supper, and confession, the predella participates in the change from altar to table and shared meal of minister and people.
God, but "one to another" -- a practice not favored by English catechumens -- (by the way, what _do_ you all mean by "auricular" confession -- confession that can be heard? and is the Protestant pleasanter form one that can't be?) (9.) On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
I must ingenuously confess," he says, "that I have a natural touch of enthusiasm, in my complexion, but such as I thank God was ever governable enough, and have found at length perfectly subduable. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
The plan of the church is essentially traditional with nave, altar, side chapel and confessional booths.
Finally, one must ask what specific ideas about God and man were accepted by Augustine in consequence of his baptism and confession of faith.
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The courts heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.
Catherine asked just a year afterward to be received into a local Augustinian convent, and her confessor supported the petition. RIDDLE ME THIS
As a teenager he was really into wrestling (an embarrassing confession!) and a friend at work has lent him a wrestling game for the week.
That's why you confess things like in the Nicene Creed, if you confess the resurrection of the body or the resurrection of the flesh.
He always calls for a public confession of faith.
But the 22-year-old defender confessed the final result soured any celebrations he had planned.
I won't comment on his self-confessed psychological flaws as that would force me to include similar comments on that other nutter, Derek Draper. Alastair Campbell starts a blog
I am going to confess to being a little bit of a keener, I did mine yesterday and did not go drinking.
He was determined to rid the world of sin, partaking in confession for up to 16 hours a day.
To ask the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Living on a Prayer: the value of Barack Obama's prayer breakfast
It was a German ship, and the captain confessed that he had had a sealed envelope containing instructions given to him when he went on his first vogage, which he was not to open until he received a wireless message with the word "Siegfried" in it; he was to understand when he received that, that he was to open the package and get the message interpreted. Britain At War
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
The criminal confessed to the priest.
I must confess I have some sympathy with his views.
May I not presume upon Your mercy by assuming there will be no consequences for my sin. Help me to confess and then to sin no more.
Phillip cracked a small smile in a sort of embarrassed confession.
In the past, when homosexuality was still considered shameful, I was slow to confess my desires to anyone - which made my reluctance to return women's affections seem all the more ill-natured.
It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
I confess," replied Wallace, "that an armed citadel is not the most pleasant abode for a lady; but at present, excepting perhaps the church, it is the safest; and I would not advise your lady to remove hence, until the plain be made as free as this mountain. The Scottish Chiefs

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