Confession vs Saying - What's the difference?
confession | saying |
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.
As nouns the difference between confession and saying
is that confession is the open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad) while saying is a proverb or maxim; something often said.As a verb saying is
.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.