confess

verb6

1. •
   to stop keeping a crime or a sin secret and tell others that it was yours

   • I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
   • I confess that I am a sinner.
2. •
   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. — 1611
3. •
   To disclose or reveal.

   • Tall thriving trees confess;d the fruitful mould. — 1725
4. •
   To profess one's love.
5. •
   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. — 1611
6. •
   To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.

   • He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed. — 1523