Confession vs Apology - What's the difference?
confession | apology |
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.
An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).
A formal justification, defence.
Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.
* Charles Dickens
As nouns the difference between confession and apology
is that confession is the open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad) while apology is an expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).confession
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Noun
(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.
Derived terms
* confessional * nonconfessionapology
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(wikipedia apology)Alternative forms
* apologie (archaic)Noun
(apologies)- What he said really hurt my feelings, but his apology sounded so sincere that I couldn't help but forgive him.
- The CEO made a public apology for the scandal, and promised full cooperation with the authorities.
- The Apology of Socrates.
- a poor apology for a hotel room
- He goes to work devising apologies for window curtains.