confess
confess
englanti
(~ to) tunnustaa, myöntää (tekonsa); (transitiivinen) tunnustaa syntinsä
refl|en ripittäytyä, tunnustaa syntinsä ripissä
(transitiivinen) (papista) ripittää
Esimerkkejä:
I finally confessed to everything.
He finally confessed to the murder.
You should confess all your sins.
Liittyvät sanat:
plead guilty
Synonyymisanakirja
confess
myöntää, tunnustaa, tunnustaa kaikki, kakistaa ulos, tuoda julki, ripittäytyä.
Rimmaavat sanat
confess rimmaa näiden kanssa:
topless, business...
Katso kaikki
Englannin sanakirja
confess (englanti > suomi)
tunnustaa
confess englanniksi
(senseid) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
I confess, that I am a sinner.
Shakespeare
- I never gave it him. Send for him hither, / And let him confess a truth.
Milton
- And there confess / Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.
Addison
- I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.
To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
Bible, Matthew x. 32
- Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven.
Bible, Acts xxiii. 8
- For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
puhekieltä To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
- Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.
puhekieltä To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
Ld. Berners
- He (..) heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.
(senseid) To disclose or reveal.
Alexander Pope
- Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mould.
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