【confession】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

替代形式(Alternative forms)

• confessione (obsolete)

词源(Etymology)

From Middle English confessioun, from Old French confession, from Latin cōnfessiō, cōnfessiōnem (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”). Doublet of confessio.

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /kənˈfɛʃən/

• Audio (US)

名词(Noun)

confession (countable and uncountable, plural confessions)

1. The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).

   Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail.

   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     With a crafty madness keeps aloof,
     When we would bring him on to some confession
     Of his true state.

2. A formal document providing such an admission.

   He forced me to sign a confession!

3. (Christianity) The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.

   I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.

   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     Hauing diſpleaſ'd my Father, to Lawrence Cell,
     To make confeſſion, and to be abſolu'd.

4. Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible,[…] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker,[…], OCLC 964384981, Romans 10:10:

     With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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.

衍生词(Derived terms)

• confessional
• nonconfession

关联词(Related terms)

• confess

翻译(Translations)

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French

词源(Etymology)

From Old French confession, from Latin cōnfessiō, cōnfessiōnem (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”).

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fɛ.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

名词(Noun)

confession f (plural confessions)

1. confession (admittance of having done something, good, bad or neutral)
2. confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution)
3. creed (a declaration of one's religious faith)

派生词(Descendants)

• → German: Konfession
• → Romanian: confesiune

查看更多(Further reading)

• “confession” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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中古英语(Middle English)

名词(Noun)

confession (plural confessions)

1. alternative form of confessioun

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Occitan

词源(Etymology)

From Latin cōnfessiō.

名词(Noun)

confession f (plural confessions)

1. confession

关联词(Related terms)

• confessar

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Old French

词源(Etymology)

Borrowed from Latin cōnfessiō, cōnfessiōnem.

名词(Noun)

confession f (oblique plural confessions, nominative singular confession, nominative plural confessions)

1. confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a clergyman for absolution)

派生词(Descendants)

• French: confession
  • → German: Konfession
  • → Romanian: confesiune
• → Middle English: confessioun, confession, confessyon, confessyone, confessyown
  • English: confession