Definition of confess in English:

confess

verb kənˈfɛskənˈfɛs

1reporting verb Admit that one has committed a crime or done something wrong.
认罪；认错；供认，招供；交代
with clause he confessed that he had attacked the old man
他供认袭击了那个老人。
no object he wants to confess to Caroline's murder
他想招供谋杀了卡罗琳。
with direct speech ‘I damaged your car,’ she confessed
“我弄坏了你的车，"她招认道。
Example sentencesExamples
- The play begins with the monologue of Scott, a 19-year-old soldier who confesses the crimes he commits during the war.
- Many people believe that it is impossible for anyone, except those who are insane or foolish, to confess to a crime that might bring capital punishment if he or she did not commit it.
- He could take any criminal and actually make them confess to their crime.
- At thirteen, Oakland police officers kept him in an interrogation room for hours until he confessed to a robbery he contends, five years later, that he didn't commit.
- Lash a few beers into them though and they become braggers of the highest order and will admit and confess to the crimes they have committed.
- I know that if I admit or confess to the offence that I may be arrested and charged.
- I confess to some guilt at linking to them - because I'm not convinced that it's a great idea for graduate students to be blogging.
- In other cases people come forward and confess to their crimes.
- The law would allow paramilitaries to give themselves up and confess to their human rights and drug trafficking crimes.
- Why would authorities force a 13-year-old and a 14-year-old to confess to a murder?
- In developing countries, nearly 60 per cent of the people who confess to committing crimes are innocent, as they do so to escape torture.
- When is the last time we heard of a trial being interrupted by someone who steps forward to confess to the crime because he cannot bear to subject an innocent man to further ordeal?
- He had confessed to buying nearly a ton of chemical fertiliser for the bomb and to supplying the mini-van in which it exploded but he denied planning the attack and his lawyers will appeal against the sentence.
- The children all eventually confess to their crimes and profess profound remorse for their actions.
- In fact, if you're about to confess to an affair and you haven't given your wife flowers in the last ten years, a lavish bouquet will probably get the message across without you having to do any talking at all.
- A mystery caller whose father confessed to a high-profile killing on his deathbed is being asked to contact police so that a murder, which has gone unsolved for almost half a century, can at last be closed.
- They were and are still being tortured to confess to crimes they did not commit.
- Keep in mind that this is a man who confessed to committing war crimes while in Vietnam.
- A lot of those guys freed from Death Row after ten years could have gotten lighter sentences if they'd confessed early-on to the crime they didn't commit.
- Never let it be said that the US judicial system is devoid of any benevolence, particularly when guilty parties hold up their hand and confess to their crime.
Synonyms
admit, acknowledge, reveal, make known, disclose, divulge, make public, avow, declare, blurt out, profess, own up to, tell all about, bring into the open, bring to light
informal blow the lid off
archaic discover
own up, admit guilt, plead guilty, accept blame/responsibility, be completely honest, tell the truth, tell all, make a clean breast of it, unbosom oneself
informal come clean, fess up, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, get something off one's chest, let on
British informal cough
1. 1.1 Acknowledge something reluctantly, typically because one feels slightly ashamed or embarrassed.
  （常指因略感羞愧、窘迫而）勉强承认
  with clause I must confess that I half believed you
  no object he confessed to a lifelong passion for food
  他承认他这一辈子对于吃有着强烈的爱好。
  Example sentencesExamples
  When we had come home tonight, I had reluctantly confessed to my two siblings that I really didn't want to sleep alone in my room.
  In a survey of 1000 adults, almost half confessed to using texts to avoid ‘conversational niceties’.
  Despite this academic success, I confess to some skepticism regarding the adoption of their proposals at a state, much less federal, level.
  I confessed to David that my wife and I had a similar miscarriage, as do so many professional couples who wait until their thirties to have kids.
  I suppose this is possible, but I confess to puzzlement.
  I thought that they had a point, though I confess to being just about their readiest apologist, apart from the 30,000 who make their way to the Valley every other weekend.
  I cannot report that he is well-focused towards streamlining his electronic folders because he confessed to being unable to complete the Concentration Test for men.
  The patrician, who has confessed to wearing ‘Levi jeans and jumpers’ at weekends, has faced a torrid time at the company since assuming the role nine months ago.
  Last night at the pub with a friend I realised just how easily amused I really am when I confessed to him how rubber bands flying through the office still make me laugh.
  I have done everything to see this as humorous, an expression of some deep insecurity, you name it, but a little while ago, I confessed to a small infatuation with someone at work.
  I confess to becoming just a little misty-eyed.
  Later he confessed to having felt ‘terrified’ by what happened to him at the start of Celtic's 6-2 victory 18 months ago.
  He confessed to being ‘very nervous’ before the show began and added it was ‘too early to say’ whether he would consider going back to radio full time.
  The dead woman was later found to be linked to a renowned Hong Kong actress, who confessed to not having rung her mother up for quite a long time - she admitted to telephoning her every two or three months.
  More than half of people quizzed confessed to avoiding wines whose names they could not pronounce.
  You know that part where you describe being racked with guilt, where you confess to feeling absolutely torn and losing the stability you felt last week?
  The truth of the matter - and I have to confess to bias here, since it's my hometown - is that New Haven has never deserved its poor reputation.
  At least half of the women who confessed to having been sexually active before the age of 16 replied, ‘I would have made sure I enjoyed myself more’.
  I'd go to him and make him confess to being something no self-respecting photographer should ever call himself: an artist.
  ‘No men were ever so deceived as we at Cincinnati,’ he confessed to his former associate on the reaper case.
  Synonyms
  acknowledge, admit, concede, grant, allow, own, say, declare, affirm, accept, recognize, be aware of/that, realize, be conscious of/that
2. 1.2with object Declare (one's religious faith)
  宣称（宗教信仰）
  150 people confessed faith in Christ
  150人宣称信仰耶稣。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He also showed His crucifixion scars on his hands and side to Thomas, this made him fall down and confess him as his own Lord and God.
  This week's story of the man born blind tells us how vital it is that we come to ‘see’ Jesus in a whole new light and confess him as Lord.
  Today we are privileged to welcome into the full life of the church's fellowship those who wish to confess their faith in Christ as Lord and Savior.
  We are to be steadfast in our faith, confessing our faith before the authorities, if need be, as Jesus made the ‘good confession’ before Pontius Pilate.
  The scripture is very clear that those who are the redeemed are those who come to now Jesus Christ personally as savior and Lord and confess him as such.
  Our salvation begins with God's choice to save us, it continues via the inner work of the Spirit in our hearts, and it comes to fruition when we confess faith in His truth.
  While we may confess one faith, the object of our true devotion reveals itself in our everyday actions and in the things to which we devote most of our time and energy.
  Hands are not to be laid on a deacon who has been imprisoned for confessing the faith, says the text; he is a presbyter by that fact.
  The Orthodox believe that all bishops confess the true faith and are the successors of Peter and the other apostles.
  With art but little transgressive argument, she makes the purpose (to confess her faith) concrete.
  A true Christian is a person who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved from the guilt and the power of sin and is surrendered to Him as his Lord and Master - and confesses Him as such before the world.
  Our part is to believe and confess Him as our Saviour and Lord.
  Rather, John is encouraging his readers to confess their faith in Christ openly so that our Lord will commit Himself to them.
  The son of a Jewish rabbi who moved to Berlin to serve the Reform Congregation, he himself confessed no religious faith as an adult.
  As the people came forward in their thousands to confess their faith, however, I was aware only of calm meditation on the part of his crew and detected no expressions of triumph.
  We anticipate the time when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess you as the Lord of creation.
  The distinction between dogma, doctrine, and opinion holds good both in confessing the Christian faith in general and a Baptist identity in particular.
  In worship the people of God encounter Jesus Christ in Word and Sacrament, confessing their faith, and are taken up into the missio Dei as they are propelled into the world as agents of the gospel's mission.
  However, the very thought of confessing my Christian faith to my parents gave me nightmares and many restless nights.
  Faithfully confessing Christ is the church's task, and never more so than when its confession is co-opted by militarism and nationalism.
3. 1.3 Declare one's sins formally to a priest.
  （向神父）忏悔，告解
  with object I could not confess all my sins to the priest
  我不能向神父忏悔我所有的罪孽。
  no object he gave himself up after confessing to a priest
  在向神父忏悔后，他自首了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The priest unseen, behind the partition asks, ‘Do you have any sins to confess my son?’
  She believed that when she confessed her sins to the priest that she was in fact confessing to God who was listening and could forgive her for those sins.
  I'm not a priest do not confess your sins and transgressions to me.
  Every day we live in the power of our baptism and in its dying-and-rising rhythm by confessing our sins and hearing the words of forgiveness.
  What is the responsibility of a priest who hears someone confess of a crime?
4. 1.4with object (of a priest) listen to the confession of.
  St Ambrose would weep bitter tears when confessing a sinner
  圣安布罗斯聆听罪人忏悔时，会流下悲苦的泪水。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Here, bound hand and foot they were thrown into an old wooden house; a priest confessed them, and he solemnly declared that they were innocent of the crime for which they suffered.
  The priest confessed her wholly, and detained her long, because he was so sorry for her being put to death.
  After a short homily, the priest confessed her in the presence of the villagers and sentenced her to an annual pilgrimage to Chartres.
  He observes that there are a number of confessions that are particularly curious - one being that the high priest confesses the sins of his family, all of the Kohanim, and the entire Jewish People.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus, past participle of confiteri 'acknowledge', from con- (expressing intensive force) + fateri 'declare, avow'.

Rhymes

acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes

Definition of confess in US English:

confess

verbkənˈfɛskənˈfes

1reporting verb Admit or state that one has committed a crime or is at fault in some way.
认罪；认错；供认，招供；交代
with clause he confessed that he had attacked the old man
他供认袭击了那个老人。
no object he wants to confess to Caroline's murder
他想招供谋杀了卡罗琳。
with direct speech “I damaged your car,” she confessed
“我弄坏了你的车，"她招认道。
with object once apprehended, they would confess their guilt
一旦被捕，他们会认罪的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Keep in mind that this is a man who confessed to committing war crimes while in Vietnam.
- In other cases people come forward and confess to their crimes.
- He could take any criminal and actually make them confess to their crime.
- I know that if I admit or confess to the offence that I may be arrested and charged.
- They were and are still being tortured to confess to crimes they did not commit.
- A lot of those guys freed from Death Row after ten years could have gotten lighter sentences if they'd confessed early-on to the crime they didn't commit.
- At thirteen, Oakland police officers kept him in an interrogation room for hours until he confessed to a robbery he contends, five years later, that he didn't commit.
- He had confessed to buying nearly a ton of chemical fertiliser for the bomb and to supplying the mini-van in which it exploded but he denied planning the attack and his lawyers will appeal against the sentence.
- The children all eventually confess to their crimes and profess profound remorse for their actions.
- Why would authorities force a 13-year-old and a 14-year-old to confess to a murder?
- Lash a few beers into them though and they become braggers of the highest order and will admit and confess to the crimes they have committed.
- In fact, if you're about to confess to an affair and you haven't given your wife flowers in the last ten years, a lavish bouquet will probably get the message across without you having to do any talking at all.
- I confess to some guilt at linking to them - because I'm not convinced that it's a great idea for graduate students to be blogging.
- The law would allow paramilitaries to give themselves up and confess to their human rights and drug trafficking crimes.
- A mystery caller whose father confessed to a high-profile killing on his deathbed is being asked to contact police so that a murder, which has gone unsolved for almost half a century, can at last be closed.
- In developing countries, nearly 60 per cent of the people who confess to committing crimes are innocent, as they do so to escape torture.
- Never let it be said that the US judicial system is devoid of any benevolence, particularly when guilty parties hold up their hand and confess to their crime.
- The play begins with the monologue of Scott, a 19-year-old soldier who confesses the crimes he commits during the war.
- Many people believe that it is impossible for anyone, except those who are insane or foolish, to confess to a crime that might bring capital punishment if he or she did not commit it.
- When is the last time we heard of a trial being interrupted by someone who steps forward to confess to the crime because he cannot bear to subject an innocent man to further ordeal?
Synonyms
admit, acknowledge, reveal, make known, disclose, divulge, make public, avow, declare, blurt out, profess, own up to, tell all about, bring into the open, bring to light
own up, admit guilt, plead guilty, accept blame, accept responsibility, be completely honest, tell the truth, tell all, make a clean breast of it, unbosom oneself
1. 1.1 Admit or acknowledge something reluctantly, typically because one feels slightly ashamed or embarrassed.
  （常指因略感羞愧、窘迫而）勉强承认
  with clause I must confess that I was slightly surprised
  我得承认我有点惊讶。
  no object he confessed to a lifelong passion for food
  他承认他这一辈子对于吃有着强烈的爱好。
  with direct speech “I needed to see you, too,” he confessed
  “我也需要见你，"他承认道。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The dead woman was later found to be linked to a renowned Hong Kong actress, who confessed to not having rung her mother up for quite a long time - she admitted to telephoning her every two or three months.
  When we had come home tonight, I had reluctantly confessed to my two siblings that I really didn't want to sleep alone in my room.
  Despite this academic success, I confess to some skepticism regarding the adoption of their proposals at a state, much less federal, level.
  At least half of the women who confessed to having been sexually active before the age of 16 replied, ‘I would have made sure I enjoyed myself more’.
  The patrician, who has confessed to wearing ‘Levi jeans and jumpers’ at weekends, has faced a torrid time at the company since assuming the role nine months ago.
  I have done everything to see this as humorous, an expression of some deep insecurity, you name it, but a little while ago, I confessed to a small infatuation with someone at work.
  ‘No men were ever so deceived as we at Cincinnati,’ he confessed to his former associate on the reaper case.
  More than half of people quizzed confessed to avoiding wines whose names they could not pronounce.
  I cannot report that he is well-focused towards streamlining his electronic folders because he confessed to being unable to complete the Concentration Test for men.
  I'd go to him and make him confess to being something no self-respecting photographer should ever call himself: an artist.
  He confessed to being ‘very nervous’ before the show began and added it was ‘too early to say’ whether he would consider going back to radio full time.
  Last night at the pub with a friend I realised just how easily amused I really am when I confessed to him how rubber bands flying through the office still make me laugh.
  I thought that they had a point, though I confess to being just about their readiest apologist, apart from the 30,000 who make their way to the Valley every other weekend.
  You know that part where you describe being racked with guilt, where you confess to feeling absolutely torn and losing the stability you felt last week?
  The truth of the matter - and I have to confess to bias here, since it's my hometown - is that New Haven has never deserved its poor reputation.
  I suppose this is possible, but I confess to puzzlement.
  Later he confessed to having felt ‘terrified’ by what happened to him at the start of Celtic's 6-2 victory 18 months ago.
  I confess to becoming just a little misty-eyed.
  In a survey of 1000 adults, almost half confessed to using texts to avoid ‘conversational niceties’.
  I confessed to David that my wife and I had a similar miscarriage, as do so many professional couples who wait until their thirties to have kids.
  Synonyms
  acknowledge, admit, concede, grant, allow, own, say, declare, affirm, accept, recognize, be aware of, be aware that, realize, be conscious of, be conscious that
2. 1.2with object Declare (one's religious faith)
  宣称（宗教信仰）
  150 people confessed faith in Christ
  150人宣称信仰耶稣。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Faithfully confessing Christ is the church's task, and never more so than when its confession is co-opted by militarism and nationalism.
  As the people came forward in their thousands to confess their faith, however, I was aware only of calm meditation on the part of his crew and detected no expressions of triumph.
  Hands are not to be laid on a deacon who has been imprisoned for confessing the faith, says the text; he is a presbyter by that fact.
  This week's story of the man born blind tells us how vital it is that we come to ‘see’ Jesus in a whole new light and confess him as Lord.
  We anticipate the time when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess you as the Lord of creation.
  However, the very thought of confessing my Christian faith to my parents gave me nightmares and many restless nights.
  Our salvation begins with God's choice to save us, it continues via the inner work of the Spirit in our hearts, and it comes to fruition when we confess faith in His truth.
  While we may confess one faith, the object of our true devotion reveals itself in our everyday actions and in the things to which we devote most of our time and energy.
  Our part is to believe and confess Him as our Saviour and Lord.
  The distinction between dogma, doctrine, and opinion holds good both in confessing the Christian faith in general and a Baptist identity in particular.
  Today we are privileged to welcome into the full life of the church's fellowship those who wish to confess their faith in Christ as Lord and Savior.
  He also showed His crucifixion scars on his hands and side to Thomas, this made him fall down and confess him as his own Lord and God.
  The scripture is very clear that those who are the redeemed are those who come to now Jesus Christ personally as savior and Lord and confess him as such.
  In worship the people of God encounter Jesus Christ in Word and Sacrament, confessing their faith, and are taken up into the missio Dei as they are propelled into the world as agents of the gospel's mission.
  Rather, John is encouraging his readers to confess their faith in Christ openly so that our Lord will commit Himself to them.
  We are to be steadfast in our faith, confessing our faith before the authorities, if need be, as Jesus made the ‘good confession’ before Pontius Pilate.
  With art but little transgressive argument, she makes the purpose (to confess her faith) concrete.
  The Orthodox believe that all bishops confess the true faith and are the successors of Peter and the other apostles.
  A true Christian is a person who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved from the guilt and the power of sin and is surrendered to Him as his Lord and Master - and confesses Him as such before the world.
  The son of a Jewish rabbi who moved to Berlin to serve the Reform Congregation, he himself confessed no religious faith as an adult.
3. 1.3 Declare one's sins formally to a priest.
  （向神父）忏悔，告解
  with object I could not confess all my sins to the priest
  我不能向神父忏悔我所有的罪孽。
  no object he gave himself up after confessing to a priest
  在向神父忏悔后，他自首了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'm not a priest do not confess your sins and transgressions to me.
  The priest unseen, behind the partition asks, ‘Do you have any sins to confess my son?’
  Every day we live in the power of our baptism and in its dying-and-rising rhythm by confessing our sins and hearing the words of forgiveness.
  What is the responsibility of a priest who hears someone confess of a crime?
  She believed that when she confessed her sins to the priest that she was in fact confessing to God who was listening and could forgive her for those sins.
4. 1.4with object (of a priest) hear the confession of (someone)
  （神父）聆听（某人）忏悔，聆听（某人）告罪
  St. Ambrose would weep bitter tears when confessing a sinner
  圣安布罗斯聆听罪人忏悔时，会流下悲苦的泪水。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Here, bound hand and foot they were thrown into an old wooden house; a priest confessed them, and he solemnly declared that they were innocent of the crime for which they suffered.
  After a short homily, the priest confessed her in the presence of the villagers and sentenced her to an annual pilgrimage to Chartres.
  The priest confessed her wholly, and detained her long, because he was so sorry for her being put to death.
  He observes that there are a number of confessions that are particularly curious - one being that the high priest confesses the sins of his family, all of the Kohanim, and the entire Jewish People.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus, past participle of confiteri ‘acknowledge’, from con- (expressing intensive force) + fateri ‘declare, avow’.

词汇	confess
释义	Definition of confess in English: confess verb kənˈfɛskənˈfɛs 1reporting verb Admit that one has committed a crime or done something wrong. 认罪；认错；供认，招供；交代 with clause he confessed that he had attacked the old man 他供认袭击了那个老人。 no object he wants to confess to Caroline's murder 他想招供谋杀了卡罗琳。 with direct speech ‘I damaged your car,’ she confessed “我弄坏了你的车，"她招认道。 Example sentencesExamples The play begins with the monologue of Scott, a 19-year-old soldier who confesses the crimes he commits during the war. Many people believe that it is impossible for anyone, except those who are insane or foolish, to confess to a crime that might bring capital punishment if he or she did not commit it. He could take any criminal and actually make them confess to their crime. At thirteen, Oakland police officers kept him in an interrogation room for hours until he confessed to a robbery he contends, five years later, that he didn't commit. Lash a few beers into them though and they become braggers of the highest order and will admit and confess to the crimes they have committed. I know that if I admit or confess to the offence that I may be arrested and charged. I confess to some guilt at linking to them - because I'm not convinced that it's a great idea for graduate students to be blogging. In other cases people come forward and confess to their crimes. The law would allow paramilitaries to give themselves up and confess to their human rights and drug trafficking crimes. Why would authorities force a 13-year-old and a 14-year-old to confess to a murder? In developing countries, nearly 60 per cent of the people who confess to committing crimes are innocent, as they do so to escape torture. When is the last time we heard of a trial being interrupted by someone who steps forward to confess to the crime because he cannot bear to subject an innocent man to further ordeal? He had confessed to buying nearly a ton of chemical fertiliser for the bomb and to supplying the mini-van in which it exploded but he denied planning the attack and his lawyers will appeal against the sentence. The children all eventually confess to their crimes and profess profound remorse for their actions. In fact, if you're about to confess to an affair and you haven't given your wife flowers in the last ten years, a lavish bouquet will probably get the message across without you having to do any talking at all. A mystery caller whose father confessed to a high-profile killing on his deathbed is being asked to contact police so that a murder, which has gone unsolved for almost half a century, can at last be closed. They were and are still being tortured to confess to crimes they did not commit. Keep in mind that this is a man who confessed to committing war crimes while in Vietnam. A lot of those guys freed from Death Row after ten years could have gotten lighter sentences if they'd confessed early-on to the crime they didn't commit. Never let it be said that the US judicial system is devoid of any benevolence, particularly when guilty parties hold up their hand and confess to their crime. Synonyms admit, acknowledge, reveal, make known, disclose, divulge, make public, avow, declare, blurt out, profess, own up to, tell all about, bring into the open, bring to light informal blow the lid off archaic discover own up, admit guilt, plead guilty, accept blame/responsibility, be completely honest, tell the truth, tell all, make a clean breast of it, unbosom oneself informal come clean, fess up, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, get something off one's chest, let on British informal cough 1.1 Acknowledge something reluctantly, typically because one feels slightly ashamed or embarrassed. （常指因略感羞愧、窘迫而）勉强承认 with clause I must confess that I half believed you no object he confessed to a lifelong passion for food 他承认他这一辈子对于吃有着强烈的爱好。 Example sentencesExamples When we had come home tonight, I had reluctantly confessed to my two siblings that I really didn't want to sleep alone in my room. In a survey of 1000 adults, almost half confessed to using texts to avoid ‘conversational niceties’. Despite this academic success, I confess to some skepticism regarding the adoption of their proposals at a state, much less federal, level. I confessed to David that my wife and I had a similar miscarriage, as do so many professional couples who wait until their thirties to have kids. I suppose this is possible, but I confess to puzzlement. I thought that they had a point, though I confess to being just about their readiest apologist, apart from the 30,000 who make their way to the Valley every other weekend. I cannot report that he is well-focused towards streamlining his electronic folders because he confessed to being unable to complete the Concentration Test for men. The patrician, who has confessed to wearing ‘Levi jeans and jumpers’ at weekends, has faced a torrid time at the company since assuming the role nine months ago. Last night at the pub with a friend I realised just how easily amused I really am when I confessed to him how rubber bands flying through the office still make me laugh. I have done everything to see this as humorous, an expression of some deep insecurity, you name it, but a little while ago, I confessed to a small infatuation with someone at work. I confess to becoming just a little misty-eyed. Later he confessed to having felt ‘terrified’ by what happened to him at the start of Celtic's 6-2 victory 18 months ago. He confessed to being ‘very nervous’ before the show began and added it was ‘too early to say’ whether he would consider going back to radio full time. The dead woman was later found to be linked to a renowned Hong Kong actress, who confessed to not having rung her mother up for quite a long time - she admitted to telephoning her every two or three months. More than half of people quizzed confessed to avoiding wines whose names they could not pronounce. You know that part where you describe being racked with guilt, where you confess to feeling absolutely torn and losing the stability you felt last week? The truth of the matter - and I have to confess to bias here, since it's my hometown - is that New Haven has never deserved its poor reputation. At least half of the women who confessed to having been sexually active before the age of 16 replied, ‘I would have made sure I enjoyed myself more’. I'd go to him and make him confess to being something no self-respecting photographer should ever call himself: an artist. ‘No men were ever so deceived as we at Cincinnati,’ he confessed to his former associate on the reaper case. Synonyms acknowledge, admit, concede, grant, allow, own, say, declare, affirm, accept, recognize, be aware of/that, realize, be conscious of/that 1.2with object Declare (one's religious faith) 宣称（宗教信仰） 150 people confessed faith in Christ 150人宣称信仰耶稣。 Example sentencesExamples He also showed His crucifixion scars on his hands and side to Thomas, this made him fall down and confess him as his own Lord and God. This week's story of the man born blind tells us how vital it is that we come to ‘see’ Jesus in a whole new light and confess him as Lord. Today we are privileged to welcome into the full life of the church's fellowship those who wish to confess their faith in Christ as Lord and Savior. We are to be steadfast in our faith, confessing our faith before the authorities, if need be, as Jesus made the ‘good confession’ before Pontius Pilate. The scripture is very clear that those who are the redeemed are those who come to now Jesus Christ personally as savior and Lord and confess him as such. Our salvation begins with God's choice to save us, it continues via the inner work of the Spirit in our hearts, and it comes to fruition when we confess faith in His truth. While we may confess one faith, the object of our true devotion reveals itself in our everyday actions and in the things to which we devote most of our time and energy. Hands are not to be laid on a deacon who has been imprisoned for confessing the faith, says the text; he is a presbyter by that fact. The Orthodox believe that all bishops confess the true faith and are the successors of Peter and the other apostles. With art but little transgressive argument, she makes the purpose (to confess her faith) concrete. A true Christian is a person who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved from the guilt and the power of sin and is surrendered to Him as his Lord and Master - and confesses Him as such before the world. Our part is to believe and confess Him as our Saviour and Lord. Rather, John is encouraging his readers to confess their faith in Christ openly so that our Lord will commit Himself to them. The son of a Jewish rabbi who moved to Berlin to serve the Reform Congregation, he himself confessed no religious faith as an adult. As the people came forward in their thousands to confess their faith, however, I was aware only of calm meditation on the part of his crew and detected no expressions of triumph. We anticipate the time when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess you as the Lord of creation. The distinction between dogma, doctrine, and opinion holds good both in confessing the Christian faith in general and a Baptist identity in particular. In worship the people of God encounter Jesus Christ in Word and Sacrament, confessing their faith, and are taken up into the missio Dei as they are propelled into the world as agents of the gospel's mission. However, the very thought of confessing my Christian faith to my parents gave me nightmares and many restless nights. Faithfully confessing Christ is the church's task, and never more so than when its confession is co-opted by militarism and nationalism. 1.3 Declare one's sins formally to a priest. （向神父）忏悔，告解 with object I could not confess all my sins to the priest 我不能向神父忏悔我所有的罪孽。 no object he gave himself up after confessing to a priest 在向神父忏悔后，他自首了。 Example sentencesExamples The priest unseen, behind the partition asks, ‘Do you have any sins to confess my son?’ She believed that when she confessed her sins to the priest that she was in fact confessing to God who was listening and could forgive her for those sins. I'm not a priest do not confess your sins and transgressions to me. Every day we live in the power of our baptism and in its dying-and-rising rhythm by confessing our sins and hearing the words of forgiveness. What is the responsibility of a priest who hears someone confess of a crime? 1.4with object (of a priest) listen to the confession of. St Ambrose would weep bitter tears when confessing a sinner 圣安布罗斯聆听罪人忏悔时，会流下悲苦的泪水。 Example sentencesExamples Here, bound hand and foot they were thrown into an old wooden house; a priest confessed them, and he solemnly declared that they were innocent of the crime for which they suffered. The priest confessed her wholly, and detained her long, because he was so sorry for her being put to death. After a short homily, the priest confessed her in the presence of the villagers and sentenced her to an annual pilgrimage to Chartres. He observes that there are a number of confessions that are particularly curious - one being that the high priest confesses the sins of his family, all of the Kohanim, and the entire Jewish People. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus, past participle of confiteri 'acknowledge', from con- (expressing intensive force) + fateri 'declare, avow'. Rhymes acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes Definition of confess in US English: confess verbkənˈfɛskənˈfes 1reporting verb Admit or state that one has committed a crime or is at fault in some way. 认罪；认错；供认，招供；交代 with clause he confessed that he had attacked the old man 他供认袭击了那个老人。 no object he wants to confess to Caroline's murder 他想招供谋杀了卡罗琳。 with direct speech “I damaged your car,” she confessed “我弄坏了你的车，"她招认道。 with object once apprehended, they would confess their guilt 一旦被捕，他们会认罪的。 Example sentencesExamples Keep in mind that this is a man who confessed to committing war crimes while in Vietnam. In other cases people come forward and confess to their crimes. He could take any criminal and actually make them confess to their crime. I know that if I admit or confess to the offence that I may be arrested and charged. They were and are still being tortured to confess to crimes they did not commit. A lot of those guys freed from Death Row after ten years could have gotten lighter sentences if they'd confessed early-on to the crime they didn't commit. At thirteen, Oakland police officers kept him in an interrogation room for hours until he confessed to a robbery he contends, five years later, that he didn't commit. He had confessed to buying nearly a ton of chemical fertiliser for the bomb and to supplying the mini-van in which it exploded but he denied planning the attack and his lawyers will appeal against the sentence. The children all eventually confess to their crimes and profess profound remorse for their actions. Why would authorities force a 13-year-old and a 14-year-old to confess to a murder? Lash a few beers into them though and they become braggers of the highest order and will admit and confess to the crimes they have committed. In fact, if you're about to confess to an affair and you haven't given your wife flowers in the last ten years, a lavish bouquet will probably get the message across without you having to do any talking at all. I confess to some guilt at linking to them - because I'm not convinced that it's a great idea for graduate students to be blogging. The law would allow paramilitaries to give themselves up and confess to their human rights and drug trafficking crimes. A mystery caller whose father confessed to a high-profile killing on his deathbed is being asked to contact police so that a murder, which has gone unsolved for almost half a century, can at last be closed. In developing countries, nearly 60 per cent of the people who confess to committing crimes are innocent, as they do so to escape torture. Never let it be said that the US judicial system is devoid of any benevolence, particularly when guilty parties hold up their hand and confess to their crime. The play begins with the monologue of Scott, a 19-year-old soldier who confesses the crimes he commits during the war. Many people believe that it is impossible for anyone, except those who are insane or foolish, to confess to a crime that might bring capital punishment if he or she did not commit it. When is the last time we heard of a trial being interrupted by someone who steps forward to confess to the crime because he cannot bear to subject an innocent man to further ordeal? Synonyms admit, acknowledge, reveal, make known, disclose, divulge, make public, avow, declare, blurt out, profess, own up to, tell all about, bring into the open, bring to light own up, admit guilt, plead guilty, accept blame, accept responsibility, be completely honest, tell the truth, tell all, make a clean breast of it, unbosom oneself 1.1 Admit or acknowledge something reluctantly, typically because one feels slightly ashamed or embarrassed. （常指因略感羞愧、窘迫而）勉强承认 with clause I must confess that I was slightly surprised 我得承认我有点惊讶。 no object he confessed to a lifelong passion for food 他承认他这一辈子对于吃有着强烈的爱好。 with direct speech “I needed to see you, too,” he confessed “我也需要见你，"他承认道。 Example sentencesExamples The dead woman was later found to be linked to a renowned Hong Kong actress, who confessed to not having rung her mother up for quite a long time - she admitted to telephoning her every two or three months. When we had come home tonight, I had reluctantly confessed to my two siblings that I really didn't want to sleep alone in my room. Despite this academic success, I confess to some skepticism regarding the adoption of their proposals at a state, much less federal, level. At least half of the women who confessed to having been sexually active before the age of 16 replied, ‘I would have made sure I enjoyed myself more’. The patrician, who has confessed to wearing ‘Levi jeans and jumpers’ at weekends, has faced a torrid time at the company since assuming the role nine months ago. I have done everything to see this as humorous, an expression of some deep insecurity, you name it, but a little while ago, I confessed to a small infatuation with someone at work. ‘No men were ever so deceived as we at Cincinnati,’ he confessed to his former associate on the reaper case. More than half of people quizzed confessed to avoiding wines whose names they could not pronounce. I cannot report that he is well-focused towards streamlining his electronic folders because he confessed to being unable to complete the Concentration Test for men. I'd go to him and make him confess to being something no self-respecting photographer should ever call himself: an artist. He confessed to being ‘very nervous’ before the show began and added it was ‘too early to say’ whether he would consider going back to radio full time. Last night at the pub with a friend I realised just how easily amused I really am when I confessed to him how rubber bands flying through the office still make me laugh. I thought that they had a point, though I confess to being just about their readiest apologist, apart from the 30,000 who make their way to the Valley every other weekend. You know that part where you describe being racked with guilt, where you confess to feeling absolutely torn and losing the stability you felt last week? The truth of the matter - and I have to confess to bias here, since it's my hometown - is that New Haven has never deserved its poor reputation. I suppose this is possible, but I confess to puzzlement. Later he confessed to having felt ‘terrified’ by what happened to him at the start of Celtic's 6-2 victory 18 months ago. I confess to becoming just a little misty-eyed. In a survey of 1000 adults, almost half confessed to using texts to avoid ‘conversational niceties’. I confessed to David that my wife and I had a similar miscarriage, as do so many professional couples who wait until their thirties to have kids. Synonyms acknowledge, admit, concede, grant, allow, own, say, declare, affirm, accept, recognize, be aware of, be aware that, realize, be conscious of, be conscious that 1.2with object Declare (one's religious faith) 宣称（宗教信仰） 150 people confessed faith in Christ 150人宣称信仰耶稣。 Example sentencesExamples Faithfully confessing Christ is the church's task, and never more so than when its confession is co-opted by militarism and nationalism. As the people came forward in their thousands to confess their faith, however, I was aware only of calm meditation on the part of his crew and detected no expressions of triumph. Hands are not to be laid on a deacon who has been imprisoned for confessing the faith, says the text; he is a presbyter by that fact. This week's story of the man born blind tells us how vital it is that we come to ‘see’ Jesus in a whole new light and confess him as Lord. We anticipate the time when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess you as the Lord of creation. However, the very thought of confessing my Christian faith to my parents gave me nightmares and many restless nights. Our salvation begins with God's choice to save us, it continues via the inner work of the Spirit in our hearts, and it comes to fruition when we confess faith in His truth. While we may confess one faith, the object of our true devotion reveals itself in our everyday actions and in the things to which we devote most of our time and energy. Our part is to believe and confess Him as our Saviour and Lord. The distinction between dogma, doctrine, and opinion holds good both in confessing the Christian faith in general and a Baptist identity in particular. Today we are privileged to welcome into the full life of the church's fellowship those who wish to confess their faith in Christ as Lord and Savior. He also showed His crucifixion scars on his hands and side to Thomas, this made him fall down and confess him as his own Lord and God. The scripture is very clear that those who are the redeemed are those who come to now Jesus Christ personally as savior and Lord and confess him as such. In worship the people of God encounter Jesus Christ in Word and Sacrament, confessing their faith, and are taken up into the missio Dei as they are propelled into the world as agents of the gospel's mission. Rather, John is encouraging his readers to confess their faith in Christ openly so that our Lord will commit Himself to them. We are to be steadfast in our faith, confessing our faith before the authorities, if need be, as Jesus made the ‘good confession’ before Pontius Pilate. With art but little transgressive argument, she makes the purpose (to confess her faith) concrete. The Orthodox believe that all bishops confess the true faith and are the successors of Peter and the other apostles. A true Christian is a person who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved from the guilt and the power of sin and is surrendered to Him as his Lord and Master - and confesses Him as such before the world. The son of a Jewish rabbi who moved to Berlin to serve the Reform Congregation, he himself confessed no religious faith as an adult. 1.3 Declare one's sins formally to a priest. （向神父）忏悔，告解 with object I could not confess all my sins to the priest 我不能向神父忏悔我所有的罪孽。 no object he gave himself up after confessing to a priest 在向神父忏悔后，他自首了。 Example sentencesExamples I'm not a priest do not confess your sins and transgressions to me. The priest unseen, behind the partition asks, ‘Do you have any sins to confess my son?’ Every day we live in the power of our baptism and in its dying-and-rising rhythm by confessing our sins and hearing the words of forgiveness. What is the responsibility of a priest who hears someone confess of a crime? She believed that when she confessed her sins to the priest that she was in fact confessing to God who was listening and could forgive her for those sins. 1.4with object (of a priest) hear the confession of (someone) （神父）聆听（某人）忏悔，聆听（某人）告罪 St. Ambrose would weep bitter tears when confessing a sinner 圣安布罗斯聆听罪人忏悔时，会流下悲苦的泪水。 Example sentencesExamples Here, bound hand and foot they were thrown into an old wooden house; a priest confessed them, and he solemnly declared that they were innocent of the crime for which they suffered. After a short homily, the priest confessed her in the presence of the villagers and sentenced her to an annual pilgrimage to Chartres. The priest confessed her wholly, and detained her long, because he was so sorry for her being put to death. He observes that there are a number of confessions that are particularly curious - one being that the high priest confesses the sins of his family, all of the Kohanim, and the entire Jewish People. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus, past participle of confiteri ‘acknowledge’, from con- (expressing intensive force) + fateri ‘declare, avow’.
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