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confession
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)
- The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
- A formal document providing such an admission.
- (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.
- 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.
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)
- confession (admittance of having done something, good, bad or neutral)
- confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution)
- 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)
- alternative form of confessioun
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin c?nfessi?.
Noun
confession f (plural confessions)
- 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)
- 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
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shrift
English
Etymology
From Middle English shrift (“confession to a priest; act or instance of this; sacrament of penance; penance assigned by a priest; penitence, repentance; punishment for sin”) [and other forms], from Late Old English scryft, Old English s?rift (“penance, shrift; something prescribed as punishment, penalty; one who passes sentence, a judge”), from s?r?fan (“of a priest: to prescribe absolution or penance; to pass judgment, ordain, prescribe; to appoint, decree”) (whence shrive), from Proto-Germanic *skr?ban? (“to write”), from Latin scr?b? (“to write”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreyb?- (“to scratch, tear”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /???ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
Noun
shrift (countable and uncountable, plural shrifts)
- The act of going to or hearing a religious confession.
- Confession to a priest.
- (obsolete) Forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission.
- circa 1594 CE: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
- [Friar:] Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. / Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
- circa 1594 CE: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Derived terms
- short shrift
Related terms
- shrive
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Firths, firths, friths
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