confessions

Noun

confession (countable and uncountable, plural confessions)

1. The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
   • Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person could be jailed.
2. A formal document providing such an admission.
   • He forced me to sign a confession!
3. 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.
   • I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
4. Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
   • With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 10:10
5. 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.
6. (Japanese) The act of professing one's love.