Confession

A confession is a statement – made by a person or by a group of persons – acknowledging some personal fact that the person (or the group) would ostensibly prefer to keep hidden. The term presumes that the speaker is providing information that he believes the other party is not already aware of, and is frequently associated with an admission of a moral or legal wrong: In one sense it is the acknowledgment of having done something wrong, whether on purpose or not. Thus confessional texts usually provide information of a private nature previously unavailable. What a sinner tells a …

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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 14 February 2024 English

With Numinous Seditions, celebrated poet and essayist Tim Lilburn investigates inner dispositions that might help us bear the new sorrows of the climate crisis. The book draws from the West’s …

amount to the silencing of the psychagogic. A confession before I continue: sometimes when I look at this examples of where psychagogic good comes from confession. Socrates’s disclosure of the Pythia’s revelation


ULCC: Uniform Law Conference of Canada · 16 November 2023 French

Tableau des résolutions de la CHLC 1983 à 2014 Résolutions de la Section pénale de la CHLC, 1983 - 2023 // ULCC Criminal Section Resolutions, 1983 – 2023 Vote Province …

to you to induce you to make any admission of confession of guilt, but whatever you now say may be given


Wilson Center Canada · 27 October 2023 English

In a moment where bilateral regulatory mistrust threatens to dismantle many of the financial ties built-up over the last three decades, understanding the mindset of the Chinese regulator becomes all …

16. Liu Yazhou alleges that in Xu’s deathbed confession he said that Liu Yuan was one of few high-level in the same breath he says that Xu’s deathbed confession mentioned one other incorruptible cadre, Liu


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 24 October 2023 French

Environ 1,4 million de Palestiniens ont été déplacés à l'intérieur de la bande de Gaza, dont près de 580 000 ont trouvé refuge dans 150 abris d'urgence désignés par l'Office …

israéliens ne parlent pas au nom des personnes de confession juive. « Dans notre humanité et notre foi, nous


DDN: Dundurn Press · 10 October 2023 English

Olympic gymnast Mary Sanders shares her journey of grief, financial struggles, battles with coaches, rivalries, and injuries, but also her reinventions, as a Cirque du Soleil acrobat, as an entertainment …

at an international competition. And here’s a confession I will share with you now: I never liked competing


BCCLA: BC Civil Liberties Association · 29 September 2023 English

Your Rights Remember! Whether you are intoxicated in public, or you are in breach of the peace, you still have all of your rights, including the right to talk to …

to promise you anything to get you to make a confession. Only the Crown prosecutor can make agreements


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 27 September 2023 English

She Dared to Succeed (in French, Elle a osé réussir), delves into the life of a woman who, for more than 30 years, broke multiple glass ceilings in the Canadian …

answered, “Number one: they are not encour- aging confession anymore, and that is probably the worst thing telling me about the psy- chological benefits of confession. She talked about guilt and the harm it does psy- chiatric training. Hearing her talk about confession as a healthy way of maintaining physical and


First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada · 22 September 2023 French

Le principe de Jordan vise à honorer les obligations nationales et internationales positives du Canada envers les enfants des Premières Nations en application de la LCDP, de la Charte, de …

par une famille d’origine ethnoculturelle ou de confession similaire est considérée comme un placement dans


BCCLA: BC Civil Liberties Association · 19 September 2023 English

Your Rights Remember! Whether you are intoxicated in public, or you are in breach of the peace, you still have all of your rights, including the right to talk to …

to promise you anything to get you to make a confession. Only the Crown prosecutor can make agreements


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2023 English

take the harp, take / the Fitbit and the Band-Aid box. Fold the whole / grey sheet of sky, lumpy and unalluring / into your rucksack.A strong theme of journeys …

but arranging pillows or cushions is a form of confession, uncovering sins. A message of trauma and loss


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