What is "confess"

Confess \Con*fess"\, v. i.

1. To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.

   Every tongue shall confess to God.
   --Rom. xiv. 11.

2. To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.

   But since (And I confess with right) you think me bound.
   --Tennyson.

Confess \Con*fess"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Confessing.] [F. confesser, fr. L. confessus, p. p. of confiteri to confess; con- + fateri to confess; akin to fari to speak. See 2d Ban, Fame.]

1. 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.

   And there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.
   --Milton.

   I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.
   --Addison.

2. To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

   Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven.
   --Matt. x. 32.

   For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
   --Acts xxiii. 8.

3. To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.

   I never gave it him. Send for him hither, And let him confess a truth.
   --Shak.

   As I confess it needs must be.
   --Tennyson.

   As an actor confessed without rival to shine.
   --Goldsmith.

4. (Eccl.)

   1. To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

      Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.
      --Addison.

   2. To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.

      He . . . heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.
      --Ld. Berners.

5. To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.

   Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mold.
   --Pope.

   Syn: Admit; grant; concede; avow; own; assent; recognize; prove; exhibit; attest.

   Usage: To Confess, Acknowledge, Avow. Acknowledge is opposed to conceal. We acknowledge what we feel must or ought to be made known. (See Acknowledge.) Avow is opposed to withhold. We avow when we make an open and public declaration, as against obloquy or opposition; as, to avow one's principles; to avow one's participation in some act. Confess is opposed to deny. We confess (in the ordinary sense of the word) what we feel to have been wrong; as, to confess one's errors or faults. We sometimes use confess and acknowledge when there is no admission of our being in the wrong; as, this, I confess, is my opinion; I acknowledge I have always thought so; but in these cases we mean simply to imply that others may perhaps think us in the wrong, and hence we use the words by way of deference to their opinions. It was in this way that the early Christians were led to use the Latin confiteor and confessio fidei to denote the public declaration of their faith in Christianity; and hence the corresponding use in English of the verb confess and the noun confession.

late 14c., from Old French confesser (transitive and intransitive), from Vulgar Latin *confessare, from Latin confess-, past participle stem of confiteri "to acknowledge," from com- "together" (see com-) + fateri "to admit," akin to fari "speak" (see fame (n.)).\n

\nIts original religious sense was of one who avows his religion in spite of persecution or danger but does not suffer martyrdom. Old French confesser thus had a figurative sense of "to harm, hurt, make suffer." Related: Confessed; confessing. An Old English word for it was andettan.

vb. 1 (senseid en to admit to the truth) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed. 2 To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in. 3 (context religion English) To unburden (oneself) of sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution. 4 (context religion English) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from. 5 (senseid en to disclose or reveal) To disclose or reveal.

1. v. confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure [syn: squeal, shrive]

2. admit, make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken the money" [syn: concede, profess]

3. confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith

Confess is a 2005 American independent feature film written and directed by Stefan Schaefer.

To confess is to admit one's guilt or to admit one's belief.

Confess may also refer to:

• Confess (film), a 2005 thriller film
• "Confess" (song), a 1948 vocal duet

Confess is the second album by Twin Shadow. It was produced by George Lewis Jr.

"Confess" is a popular song written by Bennie Benjamin and George David Weiss.

The song figures in the early careers of two important female singers:

1. In 1947, Doris Day was making a transition from a Big band singer, most recently with Les Brown, to a solo vocalist. Her first major record away from the band was a duet with Buddy Clark, with this song on one side and " Love Somebody" on the other. The record became a two-sided hit, the first two of a string of hits for Day that made her one of the top female singers in popular music.
2. About the same time, Mercury Records was planning to record the song as a vehicle for Frankie Laine. They were persuaded instead to give the song to a young female singer, who had not, at the time, a single hit: Patti Page. Page's manager, Jack Rael, succeeded in getting Mercury to let her record the song, but because of a low budget, a second singer could not be hired, so Rael suggested that Page sing the second part as well. The novelty of her doing two voices on one record probably contributed to the song becoming a top 20 hit for her. This became not only the first of many hits for Patti Page, but the first song on which a singer did more than one track. For Patti Page, multi-tracking became a trademark of her style, while others, such as Les Paul and Mary Ford, as well as Jane Turzy, took up this practice too.

The Day/Clark recording was recorded on November 21, 1947, and issued by Columbia Records as catalog number 38174, and first reached the Billboard chart on June 26, 1948, lasting 11 weeks and peaking at #16 on the chart.

The Page recording was recorded on December 3, 1947, and released by Mercury Records as catalog number 5129, with the flip side “Twelve O'Clock Flight” (also later as catalog number 5511), and first reached the Billboard chart on July 2, 1948, lasting 10 weeks and peaking at #12.

Confess is an Iranian band of musicians in the heavy metal genre. Band members Nikan "Siyanor" Khosravi and Arash "Chemical" Ilkhani were said to be arrested on November 10, 2015 and held in solitary confinement until February 5. They are reportedly awaiting trial dates. They potentially face execution after being charged with blasphemy for 'writing satanic music and speaking to foreign radio stations'. Their latest album, released in October, included tracks named 'Teh-Hell-Ran' and 'I'm Your God Now', which are among the titles that may be considered blasphemous by Iran's hardline Islamic government.

The full charges levied against the band reportedly include blasphemy; advertising against the system; forming and running an illegal band and record label “in the satanic metal & rock music style”; writing anti-religious, atheist, political and anarchistic lyrics; and conducting interviews with “forbidden” foreign radio stations.

Formed in 2010, Confess is based in Tehran, Iran and defines its music as Groove / Nu Metal / N.W.O.A.H.M / Thrash. Its members are "Siyanor" : Vocalist / Lead & Bass Guitars; "DicTator" : Drummer "Touring Member"; "Chemical" : DJ / Sampler; and "Outsider" : Drummer "Recording Member".