Acceptation vs Confession - What's the difference?
acceptation | confession |
(obsolete) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable.
* 1676 , , The Second Book of Eccle?ia?tical Polity'', in ''The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Eccle?ia?tical Polity ,
* 1769 , Oxford Standard text, , i, 15,
The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received.
* 1731 January 30, , editor), ''The Craftsman , Volume VII,
Ready belief.
The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).
* Shakespeare
A formal document providing such an admission.
(Roman Catholicism) the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. Now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
* (First Folio ed.)
Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
* Bible, Rom. x. 10
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.
As nouns the difference between acceptation and confession
is that acceptation is (obsolete) acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable while confession is the open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).acceptation
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(en noun)page 122,
- Finally, ?ome things although not ?o required of nece??ity, that to leave them undone excludeth from Salvation, are notwith?tanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God, that mo?t ample reward in Heaven is laid up for them.
- This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation , that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
- The term is to be used according to its usual acceptation .
page 233,
- My words, in common Acceptation , / Could never give this Provocation ;
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*confession
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(wikipedia confession) (en noun)- Without the real murderer's confession , an innocent person will go to jail.
- With a crafty madness keeps aloof, / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.
- He forced me to sign a confession !
- I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
- Hauing di?plea?'d my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confe??ion , and to be ab?olu'd.
- With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
