(Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest. / A confession.

One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred. / One who confesses to having done something wrong.

(religion) A belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching. / (poetry) A style of American poetry that draws on the personal history of the poet.

plural of confessional

A manual or guide to making confession. / A confessional.

Of or relating to confession.

Admittedly; by one's own confession. / (archaic) In a way that is generally acknowledged.

Obsolete form of confession.

(archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of confess

(informal, rare) The debugging technique wherein a programmer explains a problem to someone else, and in the process realizes the source of it.