make a full confession

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• make a clean breast — Make a full confession …   New dictionary of synonyms

• Confession — For other uses, see Confession (disambiguation). Confess redirects here. For other uses, see Confess (disambiguation). Confessing redirects here. For the evangelical protestant movement, see Confessing Movement. This article is for the religious… …   Wikipedia

• make a clean breast — phrasal : to make a full disclosure or confession decided to make a clean breast of his part in the affair * * * make a clean breast To make a full confession • • • Main Entry: ↑breast …   Useful english dictionary

• confession */ — UK [kənˈfeʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms confession : singular confession plural confessions 1) [countable] a spoken or written statement in which you admit that you have committed a crime Higgs later made a full confession to the police. 2)… …   English dictionary

• confession — con|fes|sion [ kən feʃn ] noun * 1. ) count or uncount a spoken or written statement in which you admit that you have committed a crime: Higgs later made a full confession to the police. 2. ) count or uncount a statement about yourself that you… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• confession — noun 1 (C) a formal statement that you have done something wrong or illegal: The police officer wrote down every word of Smith s confession. (+ of): a confession of failure | make a confession: At 3 a.m. Higgins broke down and made a full… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• confession — n. 1) to make a confession 2) to extort, force a confession from; to beat a confession out of (the police beat a confession out of him) 3) to repudiate, retract, take back, withdraw a confession 4) a deathbed; forced; full; public; voluntary… …   Combinatory dictionary

• confession — noun 1 admitting guilt ADJECTIVE ▪ full ▪ public ▪ true ▪ It s difficult to believe it s a true confession after all her lies. ▪ false …   Collocations dictionary

• full — adj. 1 holding/containing as much as it will hold VERBS ▪ be, look, seem ▪ become, get ▪ The garage is getting full of junk again. ADVERB …   Collocations dictionary

• The Seal of Confession —     The Law of the Seal of Confession     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Law of the Seal of Confession     In the Decretum of the Gratian who compiled the edicts of previous councils and the principles of Church law which he published about 1151,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Nat Turner: Confession (1831) — ▪ Primary Source       Nat Turner led the best known of all Southern slave revolts, which occurred on August 21, 1831, and climaxed a three year period of unrest among the slaves during which time Turner had been successful in convincing his… …   Universalium