Admission vs Confess - What's the difference?
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The act or practice of admitting.
* 2012 , Caroline Davies, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 December 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/03/duke-and-duchess-of-cambridge-expecting-baby?intcmp=122]
Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgment; concession.
(legal) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
(senseid) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Addison
To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
* Bible, Matthew x. 32
* Bible, Acts xxiii. 8
(religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution.
* Addison
(religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
* Ld. Berners
(senseid) To disclose or reveal.
* Alexander Pope
As a noun admission
is the act or practice of admitting.As a verb confess is
(senseid) to admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.admission
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.
- There is no way he has seen that show, the admission is more than he makes in a week.
Synonyms
* admittance, concession, acknowledgment, concurrence, allowanceSee also
* (wikipedia "admission")External links
* * ----confess
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Verb
(es)- People confess to anything under torture.
- I never gave it him. Send for him hither, / And let him confess a truth.
- And there confess / Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.
- I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.
- Whosoever, therefore, shall confess' me before men, him will I ' confess , also, before my Father which is in heaven.
- For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
- Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.
- He heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed .
- Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mould.