Meanings (ES + gloss)
confesión
The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
With a crafty madness keeps aloof, / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.
Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person could be jailed.
confesión
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.
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