How to pronounce “confess”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
• (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
• (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
• (transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
• (transitive) To disclose or reveal.
• (intransitive, chiefly in the context of Japanese media) To profess one's love.

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