Also 6 exh-. [Gr. ἐξομολόγησις f. ἐξομολογέειν, f. ἐξ intensive + ὁμολογέειν to confess: see HOMOLOGATE.] A full confession, a public confession.
1592. trans. Bullinger’s Decades, 575. Exhomologesis is the discipline of prostrating and humbling men in habite, in liuing, to lie in sacke and ashes.
1655. Jer. Taylor, Unum Necess., IX. § 4. 613. All publick criminals were tied to a publick Exomologesis or Repentance in the Church.
1679. T. Puller, Moder. Ch. Eng., 442. Doctor Cressy may be thought to owe a Penance for his Exomologesis.
1868. Q. Rev., Jan., 59. Auricular confession put in place of the old exomologesis.
