Confess
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.
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Confess Quotations
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
Groucho Marx
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
H. L. Mencken
I confess, I do not believe in time.
Vladimir Nabokov
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. Wells
Confess and be hanged.
Christopher Marlowe
As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.
Jesus Christ
Confess Translations
confess in Afrikaans is bieg
confess in Danish is bekende
confess in Dutch is biechten, toegeven, bekennen, erkennen
confess in French is avouer, confessez, confessent, confesser
confess in German is beichten, bekennen, zugeben
confess in Italian is confessare, confessarsi
confess in Spanish is confesar
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