Antonyms for confession
kənˈfɛʃ əncon·fes·sion

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1. confession

   All these words express one's answer to a charge of wrong or error that is or might be made. Apology has undergone a remarkable change from its old sense of a valiant defense — as in Justin Martyr's Apologies for the Christian faith — to its present meaning of humble confession and concession. He who offers an apology admits himself, at least technically and seemingly, in the wrong. An apology is for what one has done or left undone; an excuse may be for what one proposes to do or leave undone as well; as, one sends beforehand his excuse for not accepting an invitation; if he should fail either to be present or to excuse himself, an apology would be in order. An excuse for a fault is an attempt at partial justification; as, one alleges haste as an excuse for carelessness. Confession is a full acknowledgment of wrong, generally of a grave wrong, with or without apology or excuse. Plea ranges in sense from a prayer for favor or pardon to an attempt at full vindication. Defense, exculpation, justification, and vindication are more properly antonyms than synonyms of apology in its modern sense, and should be so given, but for their connection with its historic usage. Compare CONFESS; DEFENSE.

   Antonyms:
   accusation, censure, charge, complaint, condemnation, imputation, injury, insult, offense, wrong

   Synonyms:
   acknowledgment, apology, defense, exculpation, excuse, justification, plea, vindication

   Preposition:
   An apology to the guest for the oversight would be fitting.

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1. confession

   Antonyms:
   heresy, apostacy, protest, condemnation, refutation, index, renunciation, abjuration

   Synonyms:
   creed, catechism, articles, doctrines, tenets, profession, declaration, subscription

Matched Categories

1. • Roman Catholic
   • Admission
   • Declaration
   • Document
   • Penance
   • Religious Doctrine

Princeton's WordNet

1. confessionnoun

   an admission of misdeeds or faults

2. confessionnoun

   a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party

3. confessionnoun

   (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution

4. confessionnoun

   a public declaration of your faith

5. confessionnoun

   the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)

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1. confessionnoun

   Synonyms:
   acknowledgment, avowal, admission, confiteor, shrift, exomologesis

   Associated words:
   shrive, shrift, confessional, shriven, shriver, shrift, father

How to use confession in a sentence?

1. Dan Ives:

   It's a confession that the coronavirus [ is ] impacting personal computers, it's a negative but not a gamechanger for Microsoft. It will have a ripple impact across the supply chain [ and ] fans the flames on coronavirus worries. Apple and Microsoft have now confirmed the negative impact Wall Street had feared.

2. Roland Barthes:

   Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

3. Charles Brandt:

   It is the law of confession, the law of corroboration and its satisfied over and over again.

4. Lana Wood:

   He never did. And I don’t know that he ever will. Will there ever be a deathbed confession? Probably not. It just seems to be going that way. All I can do is have the truth printed.

5. Karl Marx:

   The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

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