confession

[kənˈfɛʃən]

Definition:
1. A statement that a person makes, admitting that they are guilty of a crime; the act of making such a statement.
2. A statement admitting something that you are ashamed or embarrassed about; the act of making such a statement.
3. A private statement to a priest about the bad things that you have done.

Use 'confession' in a sentence:

1. Another major cause of wrongful convictions is false confessions.
2. Confession cleanses the soul.
3. The police finally got a confession out of her.
4. Smith says, "Kids of all ages who expect that a parent would feel happy about a child's confession are more likely to tell the truth rather than lie."
5. And to the dead thing he made confession.
6. Uncorroborated confessions should no longer be accepted by courts.
7. The policeman had their confession.
8. He was staunchly opposed to a public confession.
9. It is strictly forbidden to obtain confessions and to give them credence.
10. Confession is one mark of repentance.
11. Foster relationship is proved with either confession or evidence.
12. His confession was greeted with derisive hoots.
13. Jurors accept subtle interrogation that elicits a nonvoluntary confession and discount any coercion.
14. You must sign the confession under pain of death.
15. He never went to Father Porter for confession again.
16. Thomas Sawyer, this is the most astounding confession I have ever listened to.
17. Michael extorts a confession from his brother-in-law before having him killed. Michael.
18. Some magistrates have abused their powers of arrest to extort confessions.
19. I have a confession.
20. I related to my friend's confession.
21. The thief alleged that the police forced him to make a false confession.
22. His confession surprised everyone.
23. Confessions made to him are never blabbed.
24. They forced a confession from him.
25. Neither trickery nor coercion is used to secure confessions.
26. He thought her confession had been made under duress.
27. His confession was forced out of him and can't be used as evidence.
28. He signed the confession under duress.
29. I have a confession to make.
30. I've a confession to make—I lied about my age.
31. The motive for confession is penitential or therapeutic—by speaking openly about personal guilt and suffering, the poet hopes to make them easier to bear.
32. His confessions were made under torture.
33. The confessions were obtained by what amounts to torture.
34. He was shocked into a confession of guilt.
35. The Supreme Court threw out the confession and voided his conviction for murder.
36. Confession is a bad metaphor for what those poets did.
37. A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning. He is abnormal.
38. The diaries are a mixture of confession, work in progress and observation.
39. This new confession threw me for a loop.
40. We dragged a confession out of him.
41. He made a false confession which he later retracted.
42. They forced him to sign a confession.
43. The diaries are a mixture of confession and observation.
44. After hours of questioning by police, she made a full confession.
45. His confession involved a number of other politicians in the affair.