Confession vs Concession - What's the difference?
confession | concession |
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.
the act of conceding, especially that of defeat
something, such as an argument, that is conceded or admitted to be wrong
(rhetoric) Admitting a point to strengthen one's overall case.
the grant of some land to be used for a specified purpose
(chiefly, US) a contract to operate a small business as a subsidiary of a larger company, or within the premises of some institution; the business itself and the space from which it operates
(Canada) In Ontario, a small road between tracts of farmland.
Concession is a synonym of confession.
As nouns the difference between confession and concession
is that confession is the open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad) while concession is the act of conceding, especially that of defeat.As a verb concession is
to grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.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.