| 单词 | confession |
| 释义 | confession (kənfeʃən ) Word forms: confessions 1. countable noun B2 A confession is a signed statement by someone in which they admit that they have committed a particular crime. They forced him to sign a confession. 2. variable noun Confession is the act of admitting that you have done something that you are ashamed of or embarrassed about. The diaries are a mixture of confession and observation. I have a confession to make. 3. variable noun If you make a confession of your beliefs or feelings, you publicly tell people that this is what you believe or feel. ...Tatyana's confession of love. [+ of] 4. variable noun In the Catholic church and in some other churches, if you go to confession, you privately tell a priest about your sins and ask for forgiveness. He never went to Father Porter for confession again. Quotations: Confession is good for the soul Collocations: confession of sin Most of us had never seen a formal, public confession of sin before. Christianity Today In fact, remarkably enough, confession of sin may be too simple. Christianity Today Or a good confession of sin? Christianity Today Confession of sin and forgiveness was both a community and an individual responsibility. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This includes confession of sin and repentance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Remove notepaper from bag and write long and detailed confession, with contact details, fold and slip under door of security guard's hut? Times, Sunday Times His detailed confessions helped to condemn his former friends to a lifetime behind bars. Times, Sunday Times But he reversed course (after fleeing and being recaptured) and indicated that he would fight the charges, an absurdity given his detailed confessions. The Times Literary Supplement All made rich and detailed confessions. Times, Sunday Times She managed to elicit a confession out of her cheating husband. Times, Sunday Times Occasional leniency might help to elicit confessions from culprits who would otherwise try to brazen things out. Times, Sunday Times None of this succeeded in eliciting the confessions her captors desired. Times, Sunday Times Bearing in mind the safeguards which protect both the innocent and the guilty in police interviews, we should not be surprised when police interviews fail to elicit confessions. Times, Sunday Times Police elicited a confession, which was used against him at trial. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We saw the teacher go to desperate measures to extract a confession, including spiking her attacker's drink and tying him up. The Sun The agents were unable to extract a confession and, having no other evidence, dropped their investigations. Times, Sunday Times Next, when that didn't work, he moved on to a more innovative method for extracting a confession. Times, Sunday Times If the programme had extracted a confession or argued coherently for his innocence, that would be different. Times, Sunday Times After finally extracting a confession, guards let her escape when a relative paid a bribe. Times, Sunday Times He made a false confession, having already admitted 200 crimes, withdrew it but was convicted after his common blood group matched samples at the scene. Times, Sunday Times She resisted pressure and threats to sign a false confession, taunted her jailers and several times went on hunger strike to protest against her captivity. Times, Sunday Times The result was 'internalised false confession': their memories were overwritten with the police's own version of events. Times, Sunday Times She said that under these pressures, she had made a false confession, which she later recanted while still in custody. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He and his supporters insist that the police forced him to make a false confession by isolating and threatening him for almost a month. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has the whiff of the medieval forced confession about it. Times, Sunday Times The words are incriminating gobbledegook, and the 'soldiers' sound passionless and robotic, like hostages reciting a forced confession. Times, Sunday Times Defendants are protected from self-incrimination, forced confession, and unrestricted admission of hearsay evidence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They were made to read forced confessions during the eight-day trial, broadcast live. Times, Sunday Times The prosecution, fearing that a higher court would reverse any guilty verdicts, never introduced the forced confessions into evidence in the trial. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He offered a deal: immunity from prosecution in exchange for a full confession. Times, Sunday Times But he tricks her into making a full confession - and in walk the coppers. The Sun Should he make a full confession it would likely lead to the lifting of the lifetime ban and the imposition of a shorter suspension. Times, Sunday Times He was arrested on the charge of witchcraft and only his full confession saved him. Times, Sunday Times They escaped by making a full confession and paying a total of 20,000 in fines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a mistaken belief that he was helping her renunciation, he refused to see her or hear her confession for long periods of time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She called for a priest to hear her confession, as she had a secret sin that had been weighing on her conscience for some time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Earlier he had heard their confessions. Times, Sunday Times He continued to the very end to hear the confessions of the pious family with whom he lived. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In foro interno it can be made by the confessor in the very act of hearing the confessions of the parties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Because without it there will be no honest confession, and without such a confession there will be no experience of forgiveness and inner freedom. Christianity Today Despite the characteristically honest confession, his public order reputation was made. Times, Sunday Times That's an honest confession of what actually happens in the case of a loss of one we deeply love. Christianity Today Even biblical characters struggled with honest confession. Christianity Today If we are willing to, however imperfectly, humble ourselves and confess our sins, that honest confession may be the most powerful teaching we can give our people. Christianity Today He did not make the confession and his job was not saved. Times, Sunday Times They will make the confession, but utter no word of contrition. Times, Sunday Times And it's at this point she decides to make her confession of undying love to him. The Sun Indeed, adult candidates for baptism are required by most branches that practice pedobaptism to make a confession of faith before baptism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But as swiftly as he made his confession he withdrew it. Times, Sunday Times The book insists that to obtain any confession you must remove all distractions such as mobile phones and give the subject your total attention. Times, Sunday Times No coercion, threats or promises shall be used under any condition to obtain a confession, statement, or admission from any individual. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Investigations often rely on obtaining confessions rather than on gathering evidence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He wears a wire to set him up, and obtains a confession. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The police relied heavily on obtaining confession evidence, and for poor defendants a lack of effective defence lawyers led to frequent convictions of innocent people. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When the commander ordered him to sign a confession he refused and told him what was happening. Times, Sunday Times During his trial he said that he had been forced to sign a confession. Times, Sunday Times He did eventually sign a confession. Times, Sunday Times The police made him sign a confession that he was unable to read. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He then agrees to sign the confession. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Into it worshipers were invited to pour their sin: either a written confession of attitudes and actions or the actual implements of evil from which people wanted to part. Christianity Today The case against him consisted principally of the evidence of an accomplice together with an apparent written confession to the police. Times, Sunday Times Some astute observers noted that he would allow only what was in written confession and refuse to go any further. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Harry has a change of heart and brings a written confession to the prison governor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Bill forces the weak and famined gangster to sign a written confession. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 供认 Japanese: 自白 |
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