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单词 confession
释义
confession
noun[CorU]
uk
/kənˈfeʃ.ən/us
/kənˈfeʃ.ən/
B2
theactofadmittingthat you have done somethingwrongorillegal:
坦白；供认，招认；承认
I have a confession tomake- I'velostthatbookyoulentme.我有件事要坦白——我把你借给我的那本书丢了。
I can'taskforhelp. Itfeelslike a confessionoffailure.我不能请求帮助，那感觉就像是承认失败。
Confession is the firststageof coming totermswith what you've done.坦白是你正视自己所作所为的第一步。
Hemadeafullconfession to thepolice.他向警方招供了一切。
Synonyms
admission(ACCEPTING)
avowalformal
anoccasionwhen aChristiantellsGodor,especiallyin theRomanCatholicChurch,tellsapriestformallyandprivately, what they have donewrongso that they can beforgiven:
忏悔，告罪
Have you been to confessionrecently?你最近进行过忏悔吗？
Thepriestheardhis confession.神父听取了他的忏悔。
More examples
  • After beingquestionedby thepolicefor twodays, Johnsonsigneda confession.
  • The two menallegethat thepoliceforcedthem to makefalseconfessions.
  • Onedayhe justwalkedinto hislocalpolicestationand made afullconfession.
  • It was such anextraordinaryconfession that I couldn'tthinkwhat to say inreply.
  • Her confession was nosurpriseto him, as he hadlongsuspectedthat she had asecretlover.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Admitting & confessing
  • avow
  • avowedly
  • breastbeating
  • clean
  • climb
  • climbdown
  • come cleanidiom
  • concede
  • concession
  • concessionary
  • confess
  • cop
  • cop tosomething
  • deny
  • eat humble pieidiom
  • face
  • hand
  • stand
  • swallow
  • truth be toldidiom
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(Definition ofconfessionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

confession| American Dictionary

confession
noun[C/U]
us
/kənˈfeʃ·ən/
Confession is theactivityoftellingGodor apriestwhat you have donewrongsoGodwillforgiveyou.
(Definition ofconfessionfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconfession

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After that, both accusations and confessions proliferated at a rapid rate.
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Table 3 lists the fifty individuals whose confessions have been recorded.
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Revivalists' public confessions of sin looked like cleansing ceremonies.
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Such stories (or reports, confessions, films, series of photos/sketches, etc.) could be fully documentary or fictions closely following true events.
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First, in order for the priests to have assigned penances, the soldiers must have made individual confessions.
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There was neither a shortage of ' supergrasses ', nor of confessions of various kinds.
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She casts her lyrical confessions against the crudeness of her world, and against the parody embodied by the other characters.
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80 which several communal confessions attribute communal ritual practices of unstated significance.
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Critics from both confessions condemned the attempt to divine a certain future and attempted to draw a clear distinction between natural, diabolical and divine signs.
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At the time the court began building its docket only five confessions had been offered.
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The only available textual evidence is confessions taken during the hearing.
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The cacophony of rumours, denunciations, apocryphal tales, sightings, clues and confessions that swept the streets - in many cases before police had even launched their investigation - only intensified the sentiment.
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The postwar demobilised writer brought a sense of entitlement to his confessions that had eluded his prewar peer group and was missing in letters from non-veteran youngsters.
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The clergyman's duties arise not from his putative existence as a rational being, but from the office he holds as a teacher in one of several public confessions.
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The decisive point, however, is that this information is not markedly different in content from the depositions and confessions subsequently given by captured thugs-be it in 1810 or 1829.
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Collocationswithconfession

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alleged confession
If we pass the amendment the element of causality between the behaviour of the prosecution and theallegedconfessionis totally removed.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
confession of faith
One definition of a formula is aconfessionoffaith.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
false confession
It can hardly be doubted that if he had been advised by a solicitor he would not have signed afalseconfession.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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