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confession | undefined |

As a noun confession

is the open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

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

    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined