Confess is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONFESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to admit or disclose
• admit that one has committed a crime or done something wrong
• acknowledge something reluctantly, typically because one feels slightly ashamed or embarrassed
• (of a priest) listen to the confession of
• admit (a fault or crime)
• To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one\'s self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.
• To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
• To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
• To make known or acknowledge, as one\'s sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
• To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.
• To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
• To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
• To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
• confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
• admit (to a wrongdoing)
• confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
• declare (one's religious faith)
• declare one's sins formally to a priest
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to acknowledge or disclose

Words related to CONFESS

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Words that contain CONFESS

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How to use CONFESS in a sentence

• He would be more apt to confess that himself, and indeed she dreaded the confession.
• He had a list in his hand, and I must confess a feeling of terror came over us all.
• YOUNG B, Tears help not, I confess, yet must I weep.
• Every man who has attained high preeminence in Science, Literature, or Art, would confess the same.
• I am obliged to confess that the moment was to me an awful moment.
• She was dressed for dinner down-town, and he had to confess she had made the most of what remained of her flaming hair and dazzling complexion.
• The valet was questioned, and had to confess that the real glass had not long since been broken, and that one like it belonging to the same set had been substituted in its place.
• They rack even Scripture to confess their cause, And plead a call to preach in spite of laws.
• The robe of philosophy is a mere affectation, I must confess.
• LET me confess another weakness, on my part, before I begin the Story of the Trial.
• Whitbread had refused to escape, while he had yet a whole day for it, for fear of seeming to confess his guilt and so bringing scandal upon the Church and his order.
• To admit an earthly relationship would be to prejudice his position with the populace, and he compels her to confess that she is mistaken.
• If this is distinct from religion, I must confess that I do not understand the distinction.
• But to emphasize this distinction is not to confess that the drama cannot do at all certain things which the novel does with unconscious ease.
• Even in these private pages, my self-esteem finds it hard to confess what happened.
• I am sorry to confess it, but I am a coward where physical pain is concerned.
• I must confess, if one does not regard Life after this manner, none but Ideots can pass it away with any tolerable Patience.
• But I must confess there is another Motive which prevails with me more than the former.
• If you do not confess to-day, to-morrow it will be too late.
• I confess that I love the things that I know, and dislike the unknown.
• She knew that she loved him, but she doubted whether a time would ever come in which she could confess it.
• I confess I always thought him an impostor, but I could never have imagined him so simple a one as we found him.
• I confess, I cannot feel, as some do, a personal consolation for the manifest evils of this war in any remote or contingent advantages that may spring from it.
• Such being the character of the official communication in question, I confess I was wholly unprepared for the course which has been pursued in regard to it.
• I was on the heels of him in less than ten minutes, though I must confess the fellow could walk amazingly.
• These are, I confess, rather metaphysical distinctions, but I did not raise them.

Similar words containing NFES without suffix s and without prefix co

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