verb

• (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
  "I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!"
• (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
  "Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven."
• (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
  "If we confesse our sinnes, hee is faithfull, & iust to forgiue vs our sinnes, and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse."
• (transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
  "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."