Noun

The act of identifying, or proving to be the same.

Much education and experience is required for proper identification of bird species

The state of being identified.

A particular instance of identifying something.

information necessary to make a good identification

A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.

The authorities asked for his identification

A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding or belonging towards somebody or something.

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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.