CONFESSION

[noun]I've got a bit of a confession to make. You know the book you lent me? Well I've lost it. [C]Is there anything you ought to tell me? Any confessions to make? [C]You actually like housework? Now there's a confession! [C]I can't ask for help. It's such a confession of failure. [C]A criminal who admits to the police that he or she is guilty of a crime makes a confession. [C]Confession is the first stage of coming to terms with what you've done. [U]Confession is the Christian activity, esp. in the Roman Catholic Church, of formally and privately telling a priest about all the things that you have done wrong so that you can be forgiven.Have you been to confession recently?The priest heard his confession.