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confesión.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
confesión.
Principal English Translation: 

confession (in the church; a loanword from Spanish) (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

xicyto in Confession = say the confession
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 69.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

xicyto in Confession = di la Confession
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 68–69.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)