(n.) Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
(n.) Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
(n.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.
(n.) A formulary 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.
(n.) An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted.
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.
Creed
Definition:
(v. t.) A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.
(v. t.) Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
(v. t.) To believe; to credit.
Example Sentences:
(1) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
(2) Several former hostages, now safely in Europe, say he had spent the past year true to the creed of his new faith.
(3) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(4) "The first slogan was 'a place for all people, all ages and all creeds.
(5) Theatre is a place where every race, creed, sexuality and gender is equal, is embraced and is loved.
(6) After showings of familiar and already much-anticipated stuff such as Watch Dogs , Assassin's Creed IV , South Park: the Stick of Truth and Mighty Quest for Epic Loot , we got The Crew , a cross-America racing title with seamless player collaboration and competition and lots of levelling up ( read our preview here ).
(7) Under the creed, mourning ceremonies are held for the dead on the third, seventh and 40th days after their passing.
(8) And in the second chapter is a statement on the administration of the muhajir (foreign) mujahid in particular and developing the creed of the Islamic State among the ansar in Syria.
(9) "His commitment to Egypt's national unity is also a testament to what can be accomplished when people of all religions and creeds work together."
(10) After a runner has made the 86-metre sprint (which will take about 12 seconds) there will be a 15-second pause - like a rest in a piece of music, according to Creed.
(11) And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice – not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity; human dignity and justice.
(12) Or the noughties, when the creed of food fetishism hit Borough , bringing with it pork pies that cost as much as a pig, fruits we couldn’t name, herbs bearing the names of the people who found them?
(13) After the creed and some Benjamin Britten, and a blessing and a long round of applause, the man charged with holding together the fractious global Anglican communion as it struggles with the vexed issues of women bishops and same-sex marriage processed out of the cathedral and into the bitterly cold spring afternoon.
(14) Beyond all differences of race or creed, we are one country, mourning together and facing danger together.
(15) And yet, 40-plus years ago, when the idea of a Channel tunnel railway was little more than a half-forgotten Victorian fantasy, St Pancras station was very nearly a martyr to the fundamentalist creeds of "rationalisation" (for which read cost-cutting), "change" (for change's sake) and "modernisation".
(16) And after a lingering look at the graphically stunning Assassin's Creed IV , it was left to Tretton and House to deliver those killer blows to the Xbox One infrastructure.
(17) Go there today and you will walk from a room of 18th-century pastels to an empty gallery with Martin Creed's Turner prize-winning light being turned on and off.
(18) "The more salient issue for the voters was his undermining his own conservative creed by making $1.6m off Freddie Mac, just as he was taking funds from drug companies while advancing a specific health policy," he said.
(19) For the first time since the return of democracy with the collapse of the colonels' regime in 1974, Greeks say that they are determined to take fate into their own hands beyond party or political creed.
(20) He also had a role in Creed, the critically acclaimed boxing movie, for which he was recruited directly by the director, fellow Oakland native Ryan Coogler.