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nounan admission of misdeeds or faultstype of:
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nouna public declaration of your faithtype of:
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nouna written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty partytype of:
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noun(Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolutiontype of:
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nounthe document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)type of:
Definition that contains confession
- torture the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
- punished subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)
- torturing the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
- penance a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
- confessional a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
- confessor a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
- confession of judgment a judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings
- cognovit judgement a judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings
- priest-penitent privilege the right of a clergyman to refuse to divulge confidential information received from a person during confession or similar exchanges
- cognovit judgment a judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings