confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
admit (to a wrongdoing
"She confessed that she had taken the money"
confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
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Quotation confesses inferiority. [ Emerson ]
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [ Syrus ]
He confesses himself guilty who refuses to come to a trial. [ Proverb ]
He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. [ Charron ]
Own or Confess? The verb to own means to possess, but it has borrowed the additional and objectionable meaning of to confess, to acknowledge; as, He owned his crime.
A man owns a house, but confesses a larceny, or a murder, neither of which offenses is hardly susceptible of ownership. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
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