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Confession vs Recognizance - What's the difference?

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Confession is a related term of recognizance.


As nouns the difference between confession and recognizance

is that confession is the open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad) while recognizance is (legal) a form of bail; a promise made by the accused to the court that he/she will attend all required judicial proceedings and will not engage in further illegal activity or other prohibited conduct as set by the court.

confession

English

Noun

(wikipedia confession) (en noun)
  • The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).
    • Without the real murderer's confession , an innocent person will go to jail.
  • * Shakespeare
    • With a crafty madness keeps aloof, / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.
  • A formal document providing such an admission.
    • He forced me to sign a confession !
  • (Roman Catholicism) the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. Now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
    • I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
  • * (First Folio ed.)
    • Hauing di?plea?'d my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confe??ion , and to be ab?olu'd.
  • Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
  • * Bible, Rom. x. 10
    • With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * confessional * nonconfession

    Related terms

    * confess

    recognizance

    English

    (wikipedia recognizance)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) a form of bail; a promise made by the accused to the court that he/she will attend all required judicial proceedings and will not engage in further illegal activity or other prohibited conduct as set by the court.
  • :The defendant was released on his own recognizance .
  • A token; a symbol; a pledge.
  • *1603 , , by William Shakespeare
    • That recognizance and pledge of love / Which I first gave her.
  • acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition

    • Related terms

    * recognizant