🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

confession noun

  /kənˈfɛʃən/
  • The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
  • A formula 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, aveu

confess verb

  /kənˈfɛs/
  • (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
confesser, avouer
  • (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.
confesser

confessable

confessable

🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

confession noun {f}

  /kɔ̃.fe.sjɔ̃/
  • Aveu, déclaration que l’on fait de quelque chose
  • (Par ellipse) Confession de foi
  • (Au pluriel) Mémoires ; autobiographie
  • (Christianisme) Action d’avouer ses péchés à un prêtre, dans l’église catholique, pour obtenir le pardon de Dieu
confession
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