Confession vs Declaration - What's the difference?
confession | declaration |
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.
A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.
A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
The act or process of declaring.
(cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
(legal) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff’s cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
(computing) The specification of a variable's type
As nouns the difference between confession and declaration
is that confession is the open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad) while declaration is a written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.confession
English
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.
