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Confervoid
- - Like, or related to, the confervae.
Confervous
- - Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae.
Confessant
- - One who confesses to a priest.
Confessary
- - One who makes a confession.
Confessing
- verb - admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken the money"
- confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
- confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
- own up
Confession
- noun - (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
- a public declaration of your faith
- a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party
- an admission of misdeeds or faults
- the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)
Confessors
- noun - a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
- someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
Confidante
- noun - a female confidant
Confidants
- noun - someone to whom private matters are confided
Confidence
- noun - a feeling of trust (in someone or something); "I have confidence in our team"; "confidence is always borrowed, never owned"
- a secret that is confided or entrusted to another; "everyone trusted him with their confidences"; "the priest could not reveal her confidences"
- a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable; "public confidence in the economy"
- a trustful relationship; "he took me into his confidence"; "he betrayed their trust"
- freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority"