Noun

(en noun)

An official indicator that things will happen as planned

Verification that something has happened

A sacrament of sealing and strengthening in many Christian Churches, often including a ceremony of anointing

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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.