full confession

collocation in English

meaningsoffullandconfession

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full
adjective
uk
/fʊl/us
/fʊl/
(of a container or a space) holding or containing as much as possible or ...
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confession
noun[C or U]
uk
/kənˈfeʃ.ən/us
/kənˈfeʃ.ən/
the act of admitting that you have done something wrong ...
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(Definition offullandconfessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffull confession

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First, each man was instructed to search his own conscience and remember his own sins, a prerequisite for making afullconfessionand evidence of self-consciousness.
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Sylberstein offers afullconfession.
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We also read in this report that before these men are released they have to make afullconfession.
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In point of fact he made afullconfessionof his guilt soon after he was convicted.
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I am prepared to makefullconfessionof my antiquity.
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That admission is not afullconfession, but it is certainly a start.
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I have no doubt that he was quite right to take the line of afullconfession.
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I can only say that, complementary with that, he should have made afullconfessionand admitted that his facts were also wrong.
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Let me make afullconfession, however.
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If they care to make afullconfession, if they care to come here in a white sheet and ask forgiveness, then we are prepared to be magnanimous.
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They escaped by making afullconfessionand paying a total of 20,000 in fines.
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He turns up at the police station, where he has given afullconfession.
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He was pointed out by his accomplices, arrested and made afullconfession.
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He makes afullconfessionand receives a sentence of one to five years.
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He was forced to make afullconfession.
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During questioning, he gave afullconfessionto the police.
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Cora, furious and indignant, insists upon offering afullconfessiondetailing both their roles.
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The confessor will often read an admonition warning the penitent to make afullconfession, holding nothing back.
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