Confession

What do we mean by confession?

The act or process of confessing, as in telling one's life story as a series of failings or tribulations. noun

Something confessed, especially a disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. noun

In some Christian churches, the sacrament of Penance. noun

A statement made acknowledging guilt of an offense. noun

An avowal of belief in the doctrines of a particular faith; a creed. noun

A church or group of worshipers adhering to a specific creed. noun

The act of confessing. noun

The act of making an avowal; profession. noun

Eccles., a disclosing of sins or faults to a priest; the disburdening of the conscience privately to a confessor: often called auricular confession. In both the Eastern and the Western Church confession is one of the four parte of the sacrament of penance, viz., contrition, confession, absolution, and satisfaction. See sacramental confession. noun

In common law, an admission or acknowledgment of guilt. A judicial confession is a confession made in court, or before an examining magistrate. An extra-judicial confession is one made not in the course of legal prosecution for the offense, but out of court, whether made to an official or a non-official person. noun

In Roman law, the admission by the defendant of the plaintilf's claim. It was either in jure (that is, before the pretor, and before the case had been referred to a judge to be tried) or in judicio (that is, made after the case had been so referred). noun

In liturgics: In many Oriental and early liturgies, a form of prayer acknowledging sinfulness and unworthiness, said by the priest before the celebration of the eucharist: also called the apologia. noun

In the Roman and other Latin masses, the Confiteor, or form of general acknowledgment of sins, said first by the celebrant and then by the assistants, and followed by the Misereatur and Indulgentiam before the priest ascends to the altar and proceeds to the Introit. noun

In the Anglican communion office, the form of general acknowledgment of sins made by the celebrant and the communicants. noun

In the liturgy of St. Chrysos-tom, and in the Alexandrine and other Oriental liturgies, the profession of faith, made before communicating, that the consecrated elements are really and truly the body and blood of Christ. noun

A formulary which comprises articles of religious faith; a creed to be assented to or signed as a preliminary to admission to the membership of a church, or to certain offices of authority in the church: usually called a confession of faith. noun

ML. confessio(n-). The tomb of a martyr or confessor. noun

capitalized In the Book of Common Prayer: The form of acknowledgment of sins to be said by the minister and the whole congregation at the beginning of Morning Prayer and Evening Praver. noun

The form of confession in the Communion office. noun

Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime. noun

The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).

A formal document providing such an admission.

The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.

Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.

A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.

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