Confess

1. v. i. To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
2. v. t. To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one’s self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.
3. v. t. To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
4. v. t. To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
5. v. t. To make known or acknowledge, as one’s sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; — sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
6. v. t. To hear or receive such confession; — said of a priest.
7. v. t. To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
8. v. i. To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.