(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
(v. t.) To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
(v. t.) To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
(v. t.) To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.
(v. t.) To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
(v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
(v. i.) To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
Example Sentences:
(1) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
(2) Social workers were branded as communists and detained till they confessed, often after coercive treatment.
(3) So it was not altogether a surprise this weekend when Elio di Rupo, the socialist charged with trying to form a viable coalition in Belgium, confessed failure to King Albert.
(4) RTL said Trierweiler had let it be known that she had not had a "nervous breakdown" when Hollande confessed to his alleged affair with Julie Gayet, 41, hours before Closer magazine published its "special edition" claiming Hollande had been secretly leaving the Elysée Palace for secret trysts with the actor.
(5) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
(6) Yet, the long list of allegations included no statement from Kenneth Bae, other than claims that he confessed and didn't want an attorney present during his sentencing last week for what Pyongyang called hostile acts against the state.
(7) All of the hypotheses tested were supported, indicating that there are three primary factors associated with the reasons why criminals make confessions during interrogation.
(8) After her release, she confirmed that she had been pressured by threats and menaces to confess to criminal acts that she had never perpetrated.
(9) According to Amnesty International, the death penalty “is so far removed from any kind of legal parameters that it is almost hard to believe”, with the use of torture to extract confessions commonplace.
(10) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
(11) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
(12) The rightwing extremist who confessed to the mass killings in Norway boasted in court on Monday that there were two more cells from his terror network still at large, prompting an international investigation for collaborators.
(13) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(14) The survivors of the emergency regime of detention camps were "screened" – or violently interrogated – in order to extract confessions.
(15) It is exciting to watch a detective interviewing a suspect, and getting that suspect to make admissions or confess to a murder.
(16) "All right-minded people will be angry and disturbed that a freely given confession, by someone of sound mind, taped and witnessed, can no longer be used as evidence in a court of law," he said.
(17) He confessed the sense of "personal strain" had been unprecedented.
(18) Her boyfriend, who confessed to the crime, had been helped by his mother.
(19) Moreover, the state-controlled Chinese media have in a series of broadcasts denounced a number of detained “suspects” as members of a crime syndicate engaging in “rights-defence-style troublemaking”, and paraded some of those detained “confessing” to wrongdoing before they have even been publicly indicted.
(20) She were remorseful all right,” pouted Mercedes, a woman who only has to raise one on-fleek eyebrow to garner a full confession.
Fess
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Fesse
Example Sentences:
(1) These details were analysed by computer to identify common factors in the small percentage of patients who present with persistent recurring sinusitis after FESS.
(2) This retrospective analysis presents the management and outcome of 16 children (less than 16 years) and 47 adults who had revision FESS.
(3) He claimed 99.9% of the transactions were clean, although he did fess up to $14m of accidental dealings.
(4) Three different vasoconstricting agents were evaluated during functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) in 57 children.
(5) So I think it's time we atheists 'fessed up and admitted that life without God can sometimes be pretty grim.
(6) No one in the party will fess up to it, but it often gives the appearance of following what Australian politicians call a "small target strategy", giving away precious little about what it may or may not have planned, so as to give the Tories as little to attack as possible.
(7) Preoperative radiologic and intraoperative endoscopic findings of maxillary and ethmoid sinuses were compared in 75 adult patients, in whom 135 chronically inflamed maxillary sinuses were operated using functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).
(8) In our institution, 0.05% oxymetazoline is the preferred vasoconstrictor for FESS in children.
(9) As a rule, functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is recommended for patients with chronic sinus problems that do not respond to medical treatment.
(10) Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) requires cadaver-based practice to acquire the necessary technical expertise.
(11) Over the past few months Michael Fallon has repeatedly told the Commons that no British servicemen would be deployed in Syria without another vote: under the pressure of a freedom of information request, Mr Airfix had last Friday been forced to fess up that a few Brits had already flown on US strikes on Syria.
(12) To report our experience with the radiographic evaluation of severe complications resulting from the functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) procedure.
(13) The other, a 13-year-old girl, with an antro-choanal polyp underwent FESS only.
(14) Based on the experiences of these two cases, FESS appears to be very helpful in treating children with choanal polyp and paranasal sinusitis.
(15) FESS provides a relatively atraumatic means of removing polyps and creating better sinus drainage.
(16) To enable this to be undertaken as a bench-top activity the Edinburgh FESS Training system has been developed.
(17) Although the ostiomeatal unit is the central feature in sinonasal inflammatory disease, obstruction of the infundibulum alone or of the sphenoethmoidal recess can cause unique inflammatory patterns of disease that require tailored FESS.
(18) Two hundred patients with chronic sinusitis were operated on using functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) techniques.
(19) The government has fessed up that four of the country's troubled lenders would need a further €24bn to withstand a worse-than-expected performance by the economy, and even that colossal sum is likely to prove an underestimate.
(20) For a period of 3 to 36 months, we followed the recovery of 210 children who underwent FESS between 1986 and 1989.