confess

1. (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.Examples: "I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!"; "I confess that I am a sinner."; "I never gave it him. Send for him hither, / And let him confess a truth."intransitivetransitive

2. (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.Examples: "Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven."; "For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both."transitive

3. (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.Examples: "If we confesse our sinnes, hee is faithfull, & iust to forgiue vs our sinnes, and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse."; "Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father."

4. (transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.Examples: "1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed."; "A jealous man confesses his wife under a priest's habit, who tells him that she is visited every night by a friar; […]"transitive

5. (transitive) To disclose or reveal.Examples: "Tall thriving trees confess;d the fruitful mould."transitive

6. (chiefly Japanese media) To profess one's love.Japanese