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Definitions for Confess

[1] to acknowledge or avow (a fault, crime, misdeed, weakness, etc.) by way of revelation.
[2] to own or admit as true: I must confess that I haven't read the book.
[3] to declare or acknowledge (one's sins), especially to God or a priest in order to obtain absolution.
[4] (of a priest) to hear the confession of (a person).
[5] to acknowledge one's belief or faith in; declare adherence to.
[6] to reveal by circumstances.
[7] to make confession plead guilty; own: to confess to a crime.
[8] to make confession of sins, especially to a priest.
[9] (of a priest) to hear confession.
[10] (when intr, often foll by to ) to make an acknowledgment or admission (of faults, misdeeds, crimes, etc)
[11] (tr) to admit or grant to be true; concede
[12] Christianity , mainly RC Church to declare (one's sins) to God or to a priest as his representative, so as to obtain pardon and absolution

Words related to Confess

disclose, reveal, acknowledge, confide, prove, divulge, concede, assert, relate, recognize, profess, declare, blow, attest, avow, snitch, affirm, leak, grant, vent

Words nearby Confess

conference pear, conferencing, conferral, conferree, conferva, confess, confessant, confessedly, confession, confession of faith, confessional

Origin of Confess

1300–50; Middle English confessen < Anglo-French, Old French confesser < Medieval Latin confessāre, verbal derivative of Latin confessus, past participle of confitērī to admit, confess, equivalent to con- con- + -fitērī, combining form of fatērī to admit

Other words from Confess

con·fess·a·ble , adjective
con·fess·ingly , adverb
half-con·fessed , adjective
pre·con·fess , verb (used with object)
un·con·fessed , adjective
un·con·fess·ing , adjective

Word origin for Confess

C14: from Old French confesser, from Late Latin confessāre, from Latin confessus confessed, from confitērī to admit, from fatērī to acknowledge; related to Latin fārī to speak

Synonyms for Confess

acknowledge, assert, blurt out, concede, confide, declare, disclose, divulge, profess, prove, recognize, relate, reveal, affirm, allow, attest, aver, avow, blow, chirp, evince, finger, fink, grant, leak, manifest, narrate, own, post, sing, snitch, squeal, unload, vent, clue in, come clean, come out, dump on, humble oneself, let on, level with, make clean breast of, open one's heart, own up, rat on, sound off, spill the beans, spit out, tip hand, weasel