Confession

1. n. An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted.
2. n. Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one’s self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
3. n. Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one’s faith.
4. n. The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.
5. n. A formulary 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.

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.