confess

verbB1

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verb

V_es/s

confesses

V_ing/Gerund

confessing

V_ed/pp

confessed

1.
(intransitive, transitive)To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
I confess that I am a sinner.
2.
(transitive)To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
3.
(religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
4.
(transitive)(transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.
5.
(transitive)To disclose or reveal.
6.
(intransitive)(intransitive, chiefly in the context of Japanese media or informal) To profess one's love.

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English confessen, from confesser, from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus (confés), past participle of cōnfiteor (to confess, admit) from con- + fateor (to admit). Displaced andetten (from andettan). confiteor.