Confess vs Beknow - What's the difference?
confess | beknow |
(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
To know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.
*1856 , Homer, Francis William Newman, The Illiad of Homer :
*1859 , United States Congress, Congressional edition - Page 354 :
*1888 , The Argosy: Volume 46:
*1922 , Walter De la Mare, Down-adown-derry: a book of fairy poems :
To acknowledge; own; confess.
*1831 , Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The poetical works of Sir Thomas Wyatt :
As verbs the difference between confess and beknow
is that confess is (senseid) to admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed while beknow is to know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.confess
English
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.
Derived terms
* (l), (l)See also
* own up * come cleanbeknow
English
Verb
- At length Alkimedon, his friend and comrade, right beknew it; [...]
- Do not think my reverend father that I am beknowing to all the affairs of the savages, there is a great deal wanting: they come to us about the affairs of their conscience, but as to the rest they consult us but little.
- [...] when I went bolt into his dressing-room, not beknowing he was in it — why it is not likely, sir, that he comes again.
- Know I as soon as dark's dreams begin Snared is my heart in a nightmare's gin; Never from terror I out may win; So dawn and dusk I pine, peak, thin, Scarcely beknowing t'other from which—My great grandam—She was a Witch.
- For unto Thee no number can be laid For to prescribe remissions of offence In hearts returned, as thou thyself hast said; And I beknow my fault, my negligence: [...]