confession
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Sense: The act of confessing
Synonyms:
concession Collocations, acknowledgment, acknowledgement , admission Collocations, allowance Collocations, owning up, revelation, revealing, disclosure Collocations, divulgence, publication, affirmation, assertion Collocations, unbosoming, utterance Collocations, vent Collocations, declaration, telling, relation Collocations, avowal, exposure Collocations, exposé, acknowledgment of guilt, acknowledgement of guilt , avowal of error, admission of guilt, admission of fault, proclamation, making public, coming clean, owning, divulging, admitting, disclosing, declaring, exposing, acknowledging, affirming, asserting, fessing up , professing, profession Collocations
Antonyms:
Sense: That which has been confessed
Synonyms:
statement Collocations, disclosure Collocations, profession Collocations, admission Collocations, declaration, acknowledgment, acknowledgement , divulgence, affirmation, assertion Collocations, avowal, exposé, acknowledgment of guilt, acknowledgement of guilt , avowal of error, admission of guilt, admission of fault, mea culpa , testimony
Antonyms:
Sense: A sacrament
Synonyms:
penance, absolution, contrition, repentance, sacrament