Confess

I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!

I confess that I am a sinner.

I never gave it him. Send for him hither, / And let him confess a truth.

And there confess / Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.

I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.

Sandusky needs to confess his guilt, said an attorney for the person identified in court as Victim No. 4.

In an emotional scene captured on police body camera, he repeatedly confesses to Blodgett’s killing, even telling authorities the weapon he used and where he buried the victim’s body, the arrest affidavit states.

Thirty-six hours later, Perez was on a psychiatric hold in a hospital, having been pressured into confessing he killed his dad and trying to take his own life. […] Judge Gee said the detectives’ tactics “indisputably led to Perez’s subjective confusion and disorientation, to the point that he falsely confessed to killing his father, and tried to take his own life.”

Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven.

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

If we confesse our sinnes, hee is faithfull, & iust to forgiue vs our sinnes, and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse.

Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.

1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.

A jealous man confesses his wife under a priest's habit, who tells him that she is visited every night by a friar; […]

Tall thriving trees confess;d the fruitful mould.