An admission of misdeeds or faults.

Roget 529: disclosure; retection^†; unveiling etc. v.; deterration^†, revealment, revelation; exposition, exposure; expose; whole truth; telltale etc. (news) 532.    acknowledgment, avowal; confession, confessional; shrift.    bursting of a bubble; denouement.    [person who discloses a secret] tattletale, snitch, fink, stool pigeon, canary.    ... show more

Roget 950: penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse; regret etc. 833.    self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation; stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience^†, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience; compunctious visitings of nature^†.    acknowledgment, confession etc. (disclosure) 529; apology etc. 952; recantation etc. 607; penance etc. 952; resipiscence^†.    awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae [Lat.], stool of repentance, cuttystool^†.    penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, a sadder and a wiser man" [Coleridge]. ... show more

Polish: spowiedź, wynurzenie, wyznanie, zwierzenie

A written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party.

Dutch: aveu, bekentenis, schuldbekentenis, schuldbelijdenis

Roman Catholic Church The act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution.

Dutch: belijdenis, biecht, geloofsbelijdenis, peccavi, professie, schuldbelijdenis
Polish: spowiedź, konfesjonał

A public declaration of your faith.

The document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century).