Confess

[kən'fes] or [kən'fɛs]

解释:

(verb.) confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith.

(verb.) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure.

录入:朱迪思--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

(v. t.) To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.

(v. t.) To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

(v. t.) To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.

(v. t.) To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.

(v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.

(v. i.) To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.

雅克校对

同义词及近义词:

v. a. [1]. Acknowledge (as a crime or fault), own, avow.[2]. Admit, grant, concede, recognize.[3]. Attest, prove, show, exhibit, manifest, be proof of.

手打:卡尔

同义词及反义词:

SYN:Avow, aver, own, reveal, disclose, acknowledge

ANT:{[Disaver]?}, disavow, suppress, silentiate, deny

整理:马库斯

解释:

v.t. to acknowledge fully esp. something wrong: to own or admit: to make known as sins to a priest: to hear a confession as a priest.—v.i. to make confession.—ns. Confes′sion acknowledgment of a crime or fault: avowal; a statement of one's religious belief: acknowledgment of sin to a priest; Confes′sional the seat or enclosed recess where a priest hears confessions.—adj. pertaining to confession.—ns. Confes′sionalism; Confes′sionalist.—adj. Confes′sionary of or belonging to confession.—n. a confessional.—ns. Confess′or one who professes the Christian faith or a priest who hears confessions and grants absolution: one who endures persecution but not death:—fem. Confess′oress; Confess′orship.—adjs. Confessed′ Confest′ admitted: avowed: evident.—advs. Confess′edly Confest′ly.—Confession of Faith a formulary embodying the religious beliefs of a church or sect: a creed.—Confess to to admit acknowledge; Stand confessed to be revealed.

录入:索菲娅

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校对:斯宾塞

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