Confessions

Word CONFESSIONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Confessions"

What do we mean by confessions?

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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The word "confessions" in example sentences

Smeaton, who had been tempted by the King into telling lies, which he called confessions, and who had expected to be pardoned; but who, I am very glad to say, was not. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Those gentlemen died like men, with the exception of Smeaton, who had been tempted by the King into telling lies, which he called confessions, and who had expected to be pardoned; but who, I am very glad to say, was not. ❋ Unknown (1852)

Interior Ministry spokesman Adil Daham told reporters about the warrant on Monday and state-run television aired what it characterized as confessions by alleged terrorists linked to al-Hashemi. ❋ Unknown (2011)

State-run television aired what it characterized as confessions by men said to be working as bodyguards for al-Hashemi. ❋ Unknown (2011)

CNN -- The semi-official Fars news agency in Iran on Sunday broadcast video showing what it called the confessions of an alleged U.S. spy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In 2007, Iran produced a pseudo-documentary called "In the Name of Democracy," which served as a vehicle to highlight what it called confessions of three academic researchers charged with trying to overthrow the state. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How he used code in "confessions" to signify that his confession was coerced, and how after he was tortured more and put in solitary for years due to his stance ❋ Unknown (2008)

To get intelligents or confessions is counter productive, and time consuming. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Saint John, whom the queen chose as her spiritual director, taught her to bear her cross with joy; but her piety only incensed the king, and he tried to extort an account of her confessions from the Saint. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Despite his tremendous virility, Malemute Kid was possessed of a softer, womanly element, which could win the confidence of a snarling wolf-dog or draw confessions from the most wintry heart. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Reliance on jailhouse snitches and confessions is one such matter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or does it matter to you if they're genuine confessions from the person who sent them or not if they might resonate with someone who might read them? ❋ Unknown (2009)

What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hence when officers wring confessions from the accused by force and violence, they violate some of the most fundamental, basic, and well-established constitutional rights which every citizen enjoys. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As the manual discusses, the objective is not to gain confessions, but rather to gain information. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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