English-Portuguese translations for confession

• confissão
  Costumamos dizer em inglês que a confissão faz bem à alma! Confession, as we say in English, is good for the soul!
  Quanto a este aspecto, tenho uma confissão a fazer.Here, I have to make a confession.
  O primeiro é, de certo modo, uma confissão: sou um megacomprador. The first one is a bit of a confession: I am a mega shopper.
• reconhecimento
  A adopção dessa estratégia constitui, neste momento, um reconhecimento do fracasso provocado pela vossa própria falta de visão. 'Goods-only' at this stage is a confession of failure caused by your own lack of insight.

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