CONFESS  招供服

ADMIT one's SELF:own CRIMES OR MISTAKES.
OWN UPPLEAD GUILTYACCEPT THE BLAMETELL THE TRUTHTELL ALLMAKE A CLEAN BREAST OF ITCOME CLEANSPILL THE BEANSLET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAGGET SOMETHING OFF ONE'S CHESTLET ONFESS UP
Hypernym
  • ADMITASSENT to what the LISTENER has in the PAST DECLARED to be TRUE OR what the LISTENER is BELIEVED to BELIEVE is TRUE.
    • ASSENTSPEAK:say that one BELIEVES what ANOTHER in the PAST has SPEAK:said.
      • SPEAKACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z.
        • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for confessing one's guilt is fú 服.

2. Shǒu 首 is refers to an unforced confession of responsibility and guilt.

NB: Zhāo 招 is post-Buddhist (Song/Yuan) and refers to confessing in the context of formal legal procedings.

黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006

GOVERNMENT/LAW 38.

服，泛指承認或坦白所做過的事情。

首，主動招供認罪。

招，在一定壓力下被動地招供認罪。

Modern Chinese Criteria
供認 is a current modern word for confession.

認罪 focusses on the crime confessed.

招認 (lit) refers in a slightly more literal way to confessing guilt.

招供 refers to confession in a legal context.

自供 focusses on the confession concerning one's own actions.

坦白 refers to a candid profession of guilt.

交代 "hand over" is a figurative idiom for owning up.

供認不諱 (prov) refers to a frank confession of guilt.

不打自招 is to make a spontaneous unforced confession.

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rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 18.33

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    CONFESSIO

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p.

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.81.58

    AVEU.CONFESSION

Words

服  fú OC: bɯɡ MC: buk 2 AttributionsWD

The current general word for confessing one's guilt is fú 服.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNconfess (guilt)
伏  fú OC: bɯɡ MC: buk 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNconfess, confess to
招  zhāo OC: kljew MC: tɕiɛu 0 AttributionsWD

Zhāo 招 is post-Buddhist (Song/Yuan) and refers to confessing in the context of formal legal procedings.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNconfess; admit in court
首  shǒu OC: qhljus MC: ɕɨu 0 AttributionsWD

Shǒu 首 is refers to an unforced confession of responsibility and guilt.

    Syntactic words
  • viconfess guilty to a crime
  • vtoNconfess guilty (to a crime) (NB: read in ancient falling tone!)
引慝  yǐn tè OC: liŋʔ nʰɯɯɡ MC: jin thək 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPiactconfess one's guilt 《書‧大禹謨》：『帝初于〈歷山〉，往于田，日號泣于旻天，于父母，負罪引慝。』
首伏  shǒu fú OC: qhljus bɯɡ MC: ɕɨu buk 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPiplead guilty
辭  cí OC: zɯ MC: zɨ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nabtextwritten confession

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