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Plural of confession

regular plural

The plural of confession is confessions.

Forms of confession

Singularconfession /kənˈfɛʃən/
Pluralconfessions
Countablecountable and uncountable

Confessions in a sentence

  • If you’re looking for juicier confessions – that is, admissions of the kinds of sins unearthed on detective shows or reality TV – then you’ll want to look elsewhere.2014 November 12, James Martin, “Confessions of a Catholic priest”, in CNN
  • To fortify their case, the Chinese resorted to confessions, extracted from American pilots.1968, Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 493
  • From an ideal—typical perspective, a laic state shows and practices neutrality between different confessions.2013 Ranjan Ghosh (ed.) Making sense of the secular. Chapter 3: How Do You Say 'Secular' in Italian? Edoardo Tortarolo. Pub. Routledge…. From the entry laic
  • Okay, time for the financial confessions of a repentant financial sinner: I am a recovering moneyholic.2010, Nikki Atkinson, The Shrewd Christian: You Can't Have It All, But You Can Have More Than Enough, Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry moneyholic
  • Yet he wears their habit and he heard confessions in one of their most important churches.1995 July, Pat Conroy, chapter 19, in Beach Music, New York, N.Y.: Nan A[hearn] Talese, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 265. From the entry Franciscan

Meaning of confession

  1. noun The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
  2. noun A formal document providing such an admission.
  3. noun 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.

Full definition of confession

Questions about the plural of confession

What is the plural of confession?
The plural of confession is confessions.
Is confession countable?
Confession is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: confession (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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