Definitions for confess

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confess con·fess

Spelling: [kuh n-fes]

IPA: /kənˈfɛs/

Confess is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in confess (cefnoss).

Definitions for confess

verb (used with object)

1. to acknowledge or avow (a fault, crime, misdeed, weakness, etc.) by way of revelation.
2. to own or admit as true:
3. to declare or acknowledge (one's sins), especially to God or a priest in order to obtain absolution.
4. (of a priest) to hear the confession of (a person).
5. to acknowledge one's belief or faith in; declare adherence to.
6. to reveal by circumstances.

verb (used without object)

1. to make confession plead guilty; own:
2. to make confession of sins, especially to a priest.
3. (of a priest) to hear confession.

Origin of confess

1300-50; Middle English confessen Anglo-French, Old French confesser Medieval Latin confessāre, verbal derivative of Latin confessus, past participle of confitērī to admit, confess, equivalen

Examples for confess

I have to confess, I had no idea that Whitney had a rumored gay lover before reading about your role in this movie.

It is not easy for an Anglo-Saxon to confess the realities of affection in vital intimacies.

I will now confess that I spent some time in the lobby of the Willard Hotel myself.

I confess, Eudora, it pained me to see you listen to his idle flattery.

Out of your bed and down on your knees to your own blessed father, and confess your sins.

And, again, I now confess, I had an occasional Bourbon and stoogie on the cuff.

During their incarceration, they were humiliated and forced to confess on national television.

Spitz “persuaded Schwend that his best chance would be to confess his activities with the RSHA and to cooperate with us.”

How is it possible for me to confess, when I tell you I know nothing about her?

To confess the strange truth, he never told me you were musical.