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ning to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt. And there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg. Milton. I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned. Addison.

One who confesses to a priest. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who makes a confession. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

By confession; without denial. [Written also confessly.]

One who makes a confession.

ligation, or crime. With a crafty madness keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. Shak.

The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others.

An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.

A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. [R.] Boucher

A confessional. [Obs.] Johnson.

One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu.

One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith. He who dies for religion is a martyr; he who suffers for it is a confessor. Latham. Our religion which hath been sealed…

he act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.

ntroversies. When they were accorded from the fray. Spenser. All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

To acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.] Chaucer. To be acknown (often with of or on), to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.] We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault. Sir T. More.

Confessedly.

The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude.

Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.

; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

Confessedly.