vt to acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
2. confess ·vt to hear or receive such confession;
said of a priest.
3. confess ·vi to make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
4. confess ·vt to admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
5. confess ·vi to acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
6. confess ·vt to disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
7. confess ·vt 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.
8. confess ·vt to make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution;
sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.