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Confession vs Saying - What's the difference?

confession | saying |

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

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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

    saying

    English

    (wikipedia saying)

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A proverb or maxim; something often said.
  • Synonyms

    * maxim, proverb, saw, expression * See also

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