Usually means: Admission of guilt or fault.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. confession: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Confession, confession: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confession: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confession: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confession: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confession, confession: Wordnik
  7. confession: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confession: Wiktionary
  9. confession: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confession: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confession: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. confession: Dictionary.com
  13. confession: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Confession: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. confession: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. confession: Rhymezone
  18. Confession, confession (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. confession: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Confession: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. confession: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Confession: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. confession: Free Dictionary
  24. confession: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. confession: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. confession: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CONFESSION: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. confession: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. confession: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Confession (sacrament), Confession (theology), confession: Legal dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Confession (sacrament), Confession (theology), confession: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Confession (sacrament), Confession (theology), confession: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. confession: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Confession: Easton Bible
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confession: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
noun:  A formal document providing such an admission.
noun:  (Christianity) The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now also termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
noun:  Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
noun:  A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
noun:  (chiefly Japanese media) The act of professing one's love.

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