English words for 'That constitutes a confession'
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noun
- A confession.
- (Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
- (reality television) A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.
- a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
adj
verb
- To surrender (information); to confess.
- Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
- To express (words, etc.) in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
- (originally US, slang) To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans.
- To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
- To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway.
- To make a noise like a cough.
- (originally US, slang) Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money).
- exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion
intj
noun
- (figurative) A noise or sound like a cough (etymology 2 sense 1).
- A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
- A vocalisation from a bird or other animal resembling a human cough.
- A bout of repeated coughing (verb etymology 1 sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.
- a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- be willing to concede
- acknowledge defeat
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
- (sports) To have a goal or point scored against
- To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
- To yield or make concession.
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- (transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
- confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
- confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
- (transitive) To disclose or reveal.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the context of Japanese media) To profess one's love.
- (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
- practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
- take vows, as in religious order
- state freely
- state insincerely
- receive into a religious order or congregation
- (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
- (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
- (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
- (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
- (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
noun
- One under the direction of a confessor.
- One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
- (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
adj
noun
- One who confesses to having done something wrong.
- a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
- (by extension, figurative) Someone who acts as listener and helper.
- One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
- someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
noun
- The act of conceding.
- A preferential tax rate.
- (chiefly US, usually in the plural) An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
- (by extension) Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
- (chiefly US) The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)
- (originally US) An admission of defeat following an election.
- A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
- (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concessions stands.
- (historical) A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power.
- (chiefly UK) A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly.
- (Canada) A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
- (historical) A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.
- (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.
- (chiefly UK) A person eligible for a concession price (see above).
- (rhetoric) An admission of the validity of an opponent's point in order to build an argument upon it or to move on to another of greater importance; an instance of this.
- (chiefly US) A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
- A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
- A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
- a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business
- the act of conceding or yielding
- a point conceded or yielded
verb
noun
- (law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
- The act or practice of admitting.
- (British, ecclesiastical law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
- Permission to enter, or the entrance itself; admittance; entrance; access
- The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgement; concession.
- A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
- The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
- the act of admitting someone to enter
- the fee charged for admission
- the right to enter
- an acknowledgment of the truth of something
adj
noun
- (Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
- (countable, religion) A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
- (by extension) One who has renounced a political party, a cause, etc.
- a disloyal person who betrays or deserts their cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
verb
adj
adv
name
noun
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- acre; acres
- army
- application
- adjutant
- air
- associate; association
- age; aged
- ambassador
- academy; academician
- automobile
- answer
- Americanization
- air branch
- accumulator
- artillery
- adult
- artificer
- aircraft; airplane
- apprentice
- atomic weight
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- article
- acid
- alto
- anode
- attack
- amphibian
- administration
- ana; anna
- admiral
- (military) assault, as on a badge
- alfa
- airman
- address
- Angstrom
- accusative case
- accommodation
- amateur
- absorbance; absorbancy
- arctic
- author
prep
noun
verb
noun
- A confession.
- (Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
- (reality television) A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.
- a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
adj
noun
- One under the direction of a confessor.
- One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
- (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
adj
noun
- One who confesses to having done something wrong.
- a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
- (by extension, figurative) Someone who acts as listener and helper.
- One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
- someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
noun
- The act of conceding.
- A preferential tax rate.
- (chiefly US, usually in the plural) An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
- (by extension) Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
- (chiefly US) The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)
- (originally US) An admission of defeat following an election.
- A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
- (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concessions stands.
- (historical) A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power.
- (chiefly UK) A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly.
- (Canada) A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
- (historical) A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.
- (chiefly US) A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.
- (chiefly UK) A person eligible for a concession price (see above).
- (rhetoric) An admission of the validity of an opponent's point in order to build an argument upon it or to move on to another of greater importance; an instance of this.
- (chiefly US) A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
- A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
- A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
- a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business
- the act of conceding or yielding
- a point conceded or yielded
verb
noun
- (law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
- The act or practice of admitting.
- (British, ecclesiastical law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
- Permission to enter, or the entrance itself; admittance; entrance; access
- The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgement; concession.
- A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
- The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
- the act of admitting someone to enter
- the fee charged for admission
- the right to enter
- an acknowledgment of the truth of something
noun
verb
verb
- To surrender (information); to confess.
- Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
- To express (words, etc.) in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
- (originally US, slang) To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans.
- To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
- To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway.
- To make a noise like a cough.
- (originally US, slang) Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money).
- exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion
intj
noun
- (figurative) A noise or sound like a cough (etymology 2 sense 1).
- A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
- A vocalisation from a bird or other animal resembling a human cough.
- A bout of repeated coughing (verb etymology 1 sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.
- a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- be willing to concede
- acknowledge defeat
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
- (sports) To have a goal or point scored against
- To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
- To yield or make concession.
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- (transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
- confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
- confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
- (transitive) To disclose or reveal.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the context of Japanese media) To profess one's love.
- (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
- practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
- take vows, as in religious order
- state freely
- state insincerely
- receive into a religious order or congregation
- (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
- (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
- (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
- (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
- (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
verb
adj
adv
name
noun
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- acre; acres
- army
- application
- adjutant
- air
- associate; association
- age; aged
- ambassador
- academy; academician
- automobile
- answer
- Americanization
- air branch
- accumulator
- artillery
- adult
- artificer
- aircraft; airplane
- apprentice
- atomic weight
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- article
- acid
- alto
- anode
- attack
- amphibian
- administration
- ana; anna
- admiral
- (military) assault, as on a badge
- alfa
- airman
- address
- Angstrom
- accusative case
- accommodation
- amateur
- absorbance; absorbancy
- arctic
- author
prep
noun
- A confession.
- (Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
- (reality television) A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.
- a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
adj
adj
noun
- (Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
- (countable, religion) A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
- (by extension) One who has renounced a political party, a cause, etc.
- a disloyal person who betrays or deserts their cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
noun
- One under the direction of a confessor.
- One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
- (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)