Confess vs Amends - What's the difference?
confess | amends |
(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
Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
* As to you, Mr. Carruthers, I think that you have done what you could to make amends for your share in an evil plot. — Doyle
(amend)
As verbs the difference between confess and amends
is that confess is (to admit to the truth) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed while amends is third-person singular of amend.As a noun amends is
compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.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 cleanamends
English
Noun
(en-plural noun)- Amends were made for the damage and no charges were filed.