To make avowal or admission of, as of a fault, a crime, a charge, a debt, or something that is against one's interest or reputation; own; acknowledge; avow.Reflexively, to make an admission or an inculpatory statement concerning; acknowledge to be; specifically, acknowledge the sins or moral faults of, as in auricular confession to a priest: as, I confess myself in error or at fault.Eccles., to receive the confession of; act as a confessor to.To acknowledge as having a certain character or certain claims; recognize; own; avow; declare belief in.To grant; admit; concede.To reveal by circumstances; show by effect; disclose; prove; attest.Synonyms Admit, Avow, etc. See acknowledge.To make confession or avowal; disclose or admit a crime, fault, debt, etc.Eccles., to make known one's sins or the state of one's conscience to a priest.