| CONFESSING | • confessing v. Present participle of confess. • confessing n. The act of making a confession.
 • CONFESS v. to admit or disclose.
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| CONFESSION | • confession n. The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad). • confession n. A formal document providing such an admission.
 • confession n. (Christianity) The disclosure of one’s sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church…
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| CONFESSIONS | • confessions n. Plural of confession. • CONFESSION n. a written or oral acknowledgment of guilt by a party accused of an offense.
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| CONFESSIONAL | • confessional adj. In the manner or style of a confession. • confessional adj. Officially practicing a particular shared religion, as a state or organization; see confessionalism 1.
 • confessional n. (Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
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| CONFESSIONALS | • confessionals n. Plural of confessional. • CONFESSIONAL n. the practice of confession.
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| CONFESSIONARY | • confessionary n. A manual or guide to making confession. • confessionary n. A confessional.
 • confessionary adj. Of or relating to confession.
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| CONFESSIONALLY | • confessionally adv. With regard to religious confession; denominationally, religiously. • CONFESSIONAL adv. relating to confession.
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| CONFESSIONALISM | • confessionalism n. (Religion) A belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching. • confessionalism n. (Poetry) A style of American poetry that draws on the personal history of the poet.
 • confessionalism n. A system of government that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious…
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| CONFESSIONALIST | • confessionalist n. A person who confesses. • confessionalist n. A priest who hears confession.
 • confessionalist n. An advocate of confessionalism.
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| CONFESSIONARIES | • confessionaries n. Plural of confessionary. • CONFESSIONARY n. a confession.
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