different between confession vs licentiate

English

Alternative forms

• confessione (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English confessioun, from Old French confession, from Latin c?nfessi?, c?nfessi?nem (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”). Doublet of confessio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?f???n/

Noun

confession (countable and uncountable, plural confessions)

1. The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
2. A formal document providing such an admission.

3. (Christianity) The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.

   I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
4. Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
5. 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.

Derived terms

• confessional
• nonconfession

Related terms

• confess

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French confession, from Latin c?nfessi?, c?nfessi?nem (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.f?.sj??/

Noun

confession f (plural confessions)

1. confession (admittance of having done something, good, bad or neutral)
2. confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution)
3. creed (a declaration of one's religious faith)

Derived terms

• donner le bon Dieu sans confession

Descendants

• ? German: Konfession
• ? Romanian: confesiune

Further reading

• “confession” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

confession (plural confessions)

1. alternative form of confessioun

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin c?nfessi?.

Noun

confession f (plural confessions)

1. confession

Related terms

• confessar

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nfessi?, c?nfessi?nem.

Noun

confession f (oblique plural confessions, nominative singular confession, nominative plural confessions)

1. confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a clergyman for absolution)

Descendants

• French: confession
  • ? German: Konfession
  • ? Romanian: confesiune
• ? Middle English: confessioun, confession, confessyon, confessyone, confessyown
  • English: confession

English

Etymology

Late Latin licenti?tus, from licenti? (“to allow to do something”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la??s?n?i?t/

Noun

licentiate (plural licentiates)

1. A person who holds the academic degree of license.
2. One who has a licence to exercise a profession.

   a licentiate in medicine or theology

   • 1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Samuel Garth" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet

     The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give gratuitous advice to the neighbouring poor.

3. A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

4. One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty.
   • 1640, Bishop Hall, Christian Moderation

     a Licentiate of Paris takes upon him to defend

Translations

Latin

Participle

licenti?te

1. vocative masculine singular of licenti?tus