Rating | Solver | Clue |
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ADMISSIONS | Confessions | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENT | Confessions | |
REVELATIONS | Confessions | |
EXPOSES | Confessions | |
ACCOUNTS | Confessions | |
RELATIONS | Confessions | |
DISCLOSURES | Confessions | |
SHRIVE | To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution. | |
BOOT | An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland. | |
CONFESSOR | A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution. | |
LICENTIATE | A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy. | |
SYMBOLICS | That branch of historic theology which treats of creeds and confessions of faith; symbolism; -- called also symbolic. | |
PENITENTIAL | A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book. | |
RACK | ..., upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confession... | |
CONFESSIONAL | The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and ... | |
EXTORT | ...t contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt. ... |