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 Translation for 'to confess' from English to Norwegian
VERB   to confess | confessed | confessed
confessing | confesses
SYNO to concede | to confess | to fink | ...
jur.
å tilstå
to confess
2
relig.
å skrifte
to confess
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Translation for 'to confess' from English to Norwegian

to confess
å tilståjur.

å skrifterelig.
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Usage Examples English
  • Speaking as an alleged eyewitness, Marcellinus recounts how Theodorus and several others were made to confess their deceit through the use of torture, and cruelly punished.
  • She goes to church to confess her infidelity and afterwards calls at Raymond and Rita's store to close out the cash register.
  • FBI Agent Ralph Himmelsbach wrote, "I have to confess, if I were going to look for Cooper...
  • When Lovo hangs up after claiming that he must have gotten a wrong number, Tony forces him to confess to the hit and then has Guino kill him.
  • Prolonged polygraph examinations are sometimes used as a tool by which confessions are extracted from a defendant, as in the case of Richard Miller, who was persuaded to confess largely by polygraph results combined with appeals from a religious leader.

  • During this point of the passage, Job has yet to confess his sins to God.
  • Those who signed the covenant had to confess their sins, consecrate their property and their labor to the society, and live as celibates.
  • Hurston's "Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States" was published posthumously in 2001 as "Every Tongue Got to Confess."
  • In Germany, the words "stehen" (to stand) and "gestehen" (to confess) are identical in the present perfect: "habe gestanden".
  • Inspired by the horrific events of Nazi Germany, Milgram's obedience experiments have been used to explain a range of social influences on the individual—including how police interrogators can get innocent people to confess to crimes they did not commit.

  • As he realizes the evil in his deeds he tries to confess and take on the punishment for his acts of crime.
  • Cohen is put in charge of the betting casinos; Dragna is forced to confess to a raging Bugsy that he stole $14,000 and is told he now answers to Cohen.
  • The "Dictionary of American Hymnology" claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for "occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon; as a confession of faith or after the sermon".
  • When a senior crewman says the murderers could escape justice by claiming they found the ship after the murders took place, the Coast Guard captain orders a mock trial and execution, and the killers are forced to confess their crimes; it is later learned that the murdered owner was a businessman involved in a money laundering scheme for a Colombian drug cartel.
  • LeChuck himself, when asked in the second and third games, refuses to answer the question; Guybrush can eventually prod LeChuck to confess that he does not know what the secret is.

  • Ximénez states that she must stay in the chair "until lunch time with only a cup of coffee at 11", and begins to shout at her to confess [...] only to have Biggles break down and confess.
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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