English-Finnish translations for confession

• rippi
• tunnustus
  Ensimmäinen on eräänlainen tunnustus: olen innokas shoppailija. The first one is a bit of a confession: I am a mega shopper.
  Tässä kohdassa minun on tehtävä tunnustus. Here, I have to make a confession.
  Tässä yhteydessä minun on tehtävä henkilökohtainen tunnustus. In this context I must make a personal confession.
• uskontunnustus
• synnintunnustus
• uskontokunta

Definition of confession

• The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad
• A formal document providing such an admission
• The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now termed the sacrament of reconciliation
• Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith
• 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

Examples

• Without the real murderers confession, an innocent person will go to jail.
• He forced me to sign a confession!
• I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.

Related words

• confessional
• confessionalism
• interconfessional
• confessionalization
• anticonfessional
• deconfessionalize
• deconfessionalization
• confessionality
• biconfessional