confession

1. The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad). (countable, uncountable) · Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person could be jailed.
2. A formal document providing such an admission. (countable, uncountable) · He forced me to sign a confession!
3. The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now also termed the sacrament of reconciliation. (countable, uncountable) · I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
4. Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith. (countable, uncountable)
5. A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith. (countable, uncountable)
6. The act of professing one's love. (countable, uncountable)

Plural confessions