Crossword-Solution: CONFESSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Confession | n. | Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime. |
| Confession | n. | Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith. |
| Confession | n. | The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. |
| Confession | n. | A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith. |
| Confession | n. | An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted. |
We have 108 clues for the answer “CONFESSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Interrogator's goal | 1 answer |
| Opposite of a line of work? | 1 answer |
| Result of a grilling, maybe | 1 answer |
| THING confessed | 1 answer |
| What a priest hears | 1 answer |
| Whodunit denouement | 1 answer |
| peccavi | 1 answer |
| lightening | 3 answers |
| shrift | 3 answers |
| unburdening | 4 answers |
| avowal | 11 answers |
| ADMISSION of guilt | 12 answers |
| Denouement | 18 answers |
| testimony | 19 answers |
| Penance | 19 answers |
| Acknowledgment | 32 answers |
| Assertion | 36 answers |
| extenuation | 40 answers |
| Vindication | 43 answers |
| apologia | 43 answers |
| ratiocination | 43 answers |
| exoneration | 44 answers |
| sending | 44 answers |
| Life after death? | 45 answers |
| repentance | 45 answers |
| divulgence | 45 answers |
| issuance | 46 answers |
| Rationale | 47 answers |
| Reparation | 49 answers |
| Manifesto | 49 answers |
| Putting (out) | 49 answers |
| dicta | 49 answers |
| rationalization | 50 answers |
| absolution | 51 answers |
| printing | 51 answers |
| plea | 52 answers |
| Emission | 52 answers |
| creed | 53 answers |
| promulgation | 53 answers |
| amends | 54 answers |
| Intention | 55 answers |
| Justification | 55 answers |
| dissemination | 56 answers |
| Airing | 56 answers |
| apology | 57 answers |
| betrayal | 57 answers |
| telecast | 57 answers |
| Edition | 58 answers |
| Rationalism | 59 answers |
| Logic | 60 answers |
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Sentences with CONFESSION (5)
The zealous and renowned Camerarius, who took an active part in the preparation of the Confession of Augsburgh, found time, amidst his numerous avocations, to prepare a version for the students in the university of Tubingen, in which he was a professor.
The creature who crept into my house that night was, on Jekyll’s own confession, known by the name of Hyde and hunted for in every corner of the land as the murderer of Carew.
She made full confession of it to her husband, trusting to his blind love for her, her boundless power over him, to soon make him forget what might have sounded unpleasant to an English ear.
CHAPTER IX ISSUS, GODDESS OF LIFE ETERNAL The confession of love which the girl’s fright had wrung from her touched me deeply; but it humiliated me as well, since I felt that in some thoughtless word or act I had given her reason to believe that I reciprocated her affection.
You been into some other audacious mischief when I wasn’t around, like enough.” Then her conscience reproached her, and she yearned to say something kind and loving; but she judged that this would be construed into a confession that she had been in the wrong, and discipline forbade that.
Quotes with CONFESSION (3)
Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in my ear sent a shiver down my spine." But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.”“That sounds more like a poison than a person,” was all I could say. His confession had both shocked and thrilled me.“Exactly,” Valek replied. “You have poisoned me.
A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, Three Across, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001–2011).