Dictionary entry

Confess (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐fess″, v. i. 1. To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.

Every tongue shall confess to God.

Rom. xiv. 11.

2. To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.

But since

(And I confess with right) you think me bound.

Tennyson.