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confess
1. v. To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
I confess, that I am a sinner.
2. v. To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
3. v. (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
4. v. (religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
5. v. To disclose or reveal.

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"I confess," said I, "that I do not quite follow you." "I hardly expected that you would."  I must confess that my theory doesn't account for that fact.

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