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Synonyms for confession
kənˈfɛʃ əncon·fes·sion

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 3 votes

  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.

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

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. confession

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

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

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)

Dictionary of English Synonymes2.7 / 3 votes

  1. confessionnoun

    Synonyms:
    acknowledgment, admission, avowal

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. confessionnoun

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

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

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How to use confession in a sentence?

  1. Fred Warmbier:

    When I see the picture of Otto going on TV with that confession, that’s not the image I have of my son in my heart, the image I have of my son is playing soccer three short years ago in high school.

  2. Patrick Haggan:

    That is not random. That is not art. That is evidence, that is a confession.

  3. Correctional Facility inmate Dixon:

    The court had to assign me a public defender and the public defender had in his possession the confession, the videotaped confession of Lamar Scott, the eight eyewitnesses' statements, and one of the victims that survived, critically wounded victim, [ who ] told them from his hospital bed that I didn't shoot him, none of these witnesses made it to court. My attorney did not call one single witness. He didn't even give an opening statement to the jury. And all of this evidence existed before trial started.

  4. Ron Johnson:

    Absent an outright confession, they're not going to be able to draw that conclusion, that will be up to the American public to draw their own conclusion : I don't see how the inspector general can draw the conclusion.

  5. Melvin Graham:

    He’s in God’s hands now, if he turns his life around, if he makes a humble confession to God, when he gets there he can join my sister and the other eight in heaven.


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