CONFES'SION, n.
1. The acknowledgment of a crime, fault or something to one's disadvantage open declaration of guilt, failure, debt, accusation, &c.
With the mouth confession is made to salvation. Romans 10 .
2. Avowal the act of acknowledging profession.
Who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession. 1 Timothy 6 .
3. The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest the disburdening of the conscience privately to a confessor sometimes called auricular confession.
4. A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission into a church.
5. The acknowledgment of a debt by a debtor before a justice of the peace, &c., on which judgment is entered and execution issued.
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