Synonyms:
confession
Meaning: an admission of misdeeds or faults
Synonyms:
confession
Meaning: a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party
Synonyms:
confession
Meaning: (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
Usage examples
"A confession, father?"
Liberal Candidate's Confession.
And I heard his whole confession.
"After all, her confession meant hanging to her.
I have a confession to make to you, my darling!"
"To disappear now would be a confession of guilt.
While I was telling Inspector Groom about her confession, she poisoned herself in my office.
"How lucky it was that she signed that confession before she died," was the remark made by Alice.
In relief from the tension of his confession, his voice dropped lower as he said, 'Now you know me!'
But by his own confession in the above passage, his criterion for distinguishing them is not always adequate.