English-Spanish translations for confession

• confesión
  Señora Presidenta, tengo que hacer una confesión. Madam President, I have a confession to make.
  La primera de ellas es una confesión: soy un gran consumidor. The first one is a bit of a confession: I am a mega shopper.
  Ahora el Presidente Santer ha hecho una confesión pública. Tan sólo espero que esa confesión pública se convierta por fin en realidad. President Santer has now made a public confession, and I only hope that he puts his statement into practice.

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