English-French translations for confession

confession
Madame la Présidente, j'ai une confession à faire. Madam President, I have a confession to make. Il faut que je vous fasse une confession. Confession, as we say in English, is good for the soul! Le premier relève un peu de la confession: j'adore faire des achats. The first one is a bit of a confession: I am a mega shopper.
aveu
Sur ce point, je dois faire un aveu personnel. In this context I must make a personal confession. Secundo, une telle décision peut-elle être prise si un aveu a été extorqué sous la torture? Second, can this decision be made if a confession has been extracted under torture? À ce niveau, parler de "marchandises uniquement" est un aveu d'échec provoqué par votre propre manque de perspicacité. 'Goods-only' at this stage is a confession of failure caused by your own lack of insight.

religion
La constitution nigériane garantit la liberté de religion: la liberté de confession, la liberté de culte et le droit de changer de religion. The Nigerian Constitution guarantees freedom of religion: freedom of confession, freedom of worship and the right to change one's religion.

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

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