confess.
To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
Meaning & usage
To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
I confess that I am a sinner.
To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
To disclose or reveal.
To profess one's love.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English confessen, from Anglo-Norman confesser, from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus (Old French confés), past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”). Displaced Middle English andetten (“to confess, admit”) (from Old English andettan). Doublet of confiteor. Sense 6 is a semantic loan from Japanese 告(こく)白(はく) (kokuhaku).
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