英语词汇“self-confession”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

self-confession n.

Brit.

/ˌsɛlfkənˈfɛʃn/

U.S.

/ˌsɛlfkənˈfɛʃ(ə)n/

official or public acknowledgement of one's crimes, misdeeds, or faults; avowal, esp. in writing, of something of which one is ashamed; (also) an act or instance of this.

ΚΠ

1650 Perfect Diurnall No. 36. 429 Every such person convict before a Iustice of the Peace or other cheife Officer by the Oath of two Witnesses, or self-confession, for the first fault to be commit to Prison.

1736 Disc. Witchcraft 22 Nor must we doubt the Truth of these Things, which the holy Inquisition has..found to be true, as well from the Testimony of Witnesses, as also from the self Confession of Delinquents.

1847 Atlas 23 Jan. 63/3 He might give prominence to those peculiar characteristics which were exhibited in their practice, their lot in life, or their self confessions.

1923 F. G. Ellerton Let. 4 Nov. in J. Bailey Lett. & Diaries (1935) 236 I take it that the pargoletta passage is of the nature of a self-confession on Dante's part.

2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Jan. a7 In the 1950s, officials forced many intellectuals to write letters of self-confession as a means of subjugating them to Mao's ideas.

单词	self-confession
释义	> as lemmas self-confession self-confession n. Brit. /ˌsɛlfkənˈfɛʃn/ , U.S. /ˌsɛlfkənˈfɛʃ(ə)n/ official or public acknowledgement of one's crimes, misdeeds, or faults; avowal, esp. in writing, of something of which one is ashamed; (also) an act or instance of this. ΚΠ 1650 Perfect Diurnall No. 36. 429 Every such person convict before a Iustice of the Peace or other cheife Officer by the Oath of two Witnesses, or self-confession, for the first fault to be commit to Prison. 1736 Disc. Witchcraft 22 Nor must we doubt the Truth of these Things, which the holy Inquisition has..found to be true, as well from the Testimony of Witnesses, as also from the self Confession of Delinquents. 1847 Atlas 23 Jan. 63/3 He might give prominence to those peculiar characteristics which were exhibited in their practice, their lot in life, or their self confessions. 1923 F. G. Ellerton Let. 4 Nov. in J. Bailey Lett. & Diaries (1935) 236 I take it that the pargoletta passage is of the nature of a self-confession on Dante's part. 2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Jan. a7 In the 1950s, officials forced many intellectuals to write letters of self-confession as a means of subjugating them to Mao's ideas. extracted from self-prefix < as lemmas
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