confessionとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /kənˈfɛʃən/

名詞

confession (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 confessions)

1. The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).

   Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail.

   • Shakespeare

     With a crafty madness keeps aloof, / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.

2. A formal document providing such an admission.

   He forced me to sign a confession!

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.

   • 1597, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act III (First Folio ed.)

     Hauing diſpleaſ'd my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confeſſion, and to be abſolu'd.

4. Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
   • Bible, Rom. x. 10

     With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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.

派生語

• confessional
• nonconfession

関連する語

• confess