Verb

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(senseid) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.

People confess to anything under torture.

* Shakespeare

I never gave it him. Send for him hither, / And let him confess a truth.

* Milton

And there confess / Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.

* Addison

I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.

To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

* Bible, Matthew x. 32

Whosoever, therefore, shall confess' me before men, him will I ' confess , also, before my Father which is in heaven.

* Bible, Acts xxiii. 8

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

(religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution.

* Addison

Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.

(religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.

* Ld. Berners

He heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed .

(senseid) To disclose or reveal.

* Alexander Pope

Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mould.

Verb

(en verb)

To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.

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To withstand the actions of.

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To oppose.

(obsolete) To be distasteful to.

* 1608 , , II. iii. 29:

These cates resist me,