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To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining
to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a
debt. |
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To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in. |
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To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as
after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment. |
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To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a
priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the
reflexive pronoun. |
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To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a
priest. |
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To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its
cause; to prove; to attest. |
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To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the
state of the conscience. |
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To acknowledge; to admit; to concede. |
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