confession

noun6

1. •
   an open statement by someone that they did something, usually something wrong

   • Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person could be jailed.
2. •
   A formal document providing such an admission.

   • He forced me to sign a confession!
3. •
   The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now also termed the sacrament of reconciliation.

   • I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
4. •
   The act of professing one's love.
5. •
   Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.

   • With the mouth confession is made unto salvation. — 1611
6. •
   A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.