Confess



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解释

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• v. 承认, 供认
• ［英］ v. 承认, 供认 ( admit that one has done wrong)
• ［记］ con ( 全部) +fess ( 说) -> 全部说出 -> 坦白
• ［同］ 同根词: profess ( 声称, 讲授) ; professor ( 教授) 派生词: confession ( 自白, 招供)

Webster Collegiate

verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French confesser, from confés having confessed, from Latin confessus, past participle of confitēri to confess, from com- + fatēri to confess; akin to Latin fari to speak — more at ban
• Date: 14th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to tell or make known (as something wrong or damaging to oneself) ; admit <he confessed his guilt
  • 2.
    • a. to acknowledge (sin) to God or to a priest
    • b. to receive the confession of (a penitent)
  • 3. to declare faith in or adherence to ; profess
  • 4. to give evidence of
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to disclose one's faults; specifically to unburden one's sins or the state of one's conscience to God or to a priest
    • b. to hear a confession
  • 2. admit, own <confess to a crime
• Synonyms: see acknowledge
• ? confessable adjective

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