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confession

/kuhn-fesh-uhn/US // kənˈfɛʃ ən //UK // (kənˈfɛʃən) //

表白,表白方式,表白书,表白的方式

Related Words

disclosure披露,披露信息,信息披露,披露情况story故事,报道,新闻报道,新闻acknowledgment认可,鸣谢,确认,承认revelation启示,启示录,揭示,揭秘admission录取,入学,入场,入会assertion主张,声称,论断,断言statement声明,声明书,发言,说话proclamation文告,宣告,公告,声明concession优惠,让步,特许权,优惠政策squawk喊叫声,呐喊声,尖叫声,呐喊publication出版物squeal尖叫声,尖声叫,尖叫,尖锐湿疣song歌曲declaration声明,宣布,申报,宣告profession专业,职业,行业,专业性enumeration枚举,枚举法,列举,术语recitation背诵,朗诵,诵读,朗诵会affirmation申明,肯定,申诉,确认relation关系avowal誓词,誓言,宣誓,宣称

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : acknowledgment; avowal; admission: a confession of incompetence.
    • : acknowledgment or disclosure of sin or sinfulness, especially to a priest to obtain absolution.
    • : something that is confessed.
    • : a formal, usually written, acknowledgment of guilt by a person accused of a crime.
    • : Also called confession of faith. a formal profession of belief and acceptance of doctrines, as before being admitted to church membership.
    • : the tomb of a martyr or confessor or the altar or shrine connected with it.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounadmittance of information
Forms: confessions
Synonyms
acknowledgment认可,鸣谢,确认,承认admission录取,入学,入场,入会assertion主张,声称,论断,断言concession优惠,让步,特许权,优惠政策disclosure披露,披露信息,信息披露,披露情况proclamation文告,宣告,公告,声明revelation启示,启示录,揭示,揭秘statement声明,声明书,发言,说话story故事,报道,新闻报道,新闻affirmation申明,肯定,申诉,确认allowance津贴,补贴,津补贴,补助assenting同意的,同意,赞同,赞成avowal誓词,誓言,宣誓,宣称declaration声明,宣布,申报,宣告divulgence泄密,泄露,泄漏,泄露信息enumeration枚举,枚举法,列举,术语exposure曝光,曝光率,接触,暴露narration叙述,叙事,解说词,旁白profession专业,职业,行业,专业性publication出版物recitation背诵,朗诵,诵读,朗诵会relation关系revealing揭示,披露,揭示真相,揭示的song歌曲squawk喊叫声,呐喊声,尖叫声,呐喊squeal尖叫声,尖声叫,尖叫,尖锐湿疣telling告诉你,告诉大家,告知,告诉他们utterance话语,言语,言谈举止,话语权disclosing披露,披露的,揭露,公开的exposémaking public公开,公开化,公众,公示owning up坦诚相待,坦诚相见,坦白说,坦诚相告unbosoming不怀好意,不怀好意的人,不怀好意的,不怀好意地

Examples

  • In his court confession, Yin Hongzhang said he mentioned to Yin Weidong in 2002 that he wanted to buy a car, drawing a $15,200 cash gift from the executive.

  • A pattern soon emerged of SARS extorting civilians or detaining and torturing them into giving confessions.

  • Don’t lead with the information as if it’s some kind of confession.

  • A product of the tough-on-crime era of the 1980s and 1990s, she was slow to respond to a stunning series of false confessions and wrongful convictions.

  • The same day, he also posted a more straightforward confession on his real blog.

  • Outside of Iran, Rigi's “confession” seemed like another in the long tradition of statements extracted from prisoners there.

  • In the course of his confession, he supplied details that should only have been known to the killer.

  • His belief that officers really did find his fingerprints at the scene seems to have encouraged his false confession.

  • And that confession is said by police to have been just the start.

  • He signed a written confession after an hour and 45 minutes.

  • It was on an occasion of the death of a man in this city by stabbing, who begged loudly for confession.

  • They will try to compel you to confession; and, though you are blameless, you will suffer the cruelest ordeal of transgression.

  • The narrative had excited him out of his apathy and physical exhaustion, the confession shaken the rigidity from his mind.

  • And the question would always remain if the highest honor would not have commanded confession.

  • Was it the threat of Tony's near arrival that made her confession—and his dismissal—at last inevitable?

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