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UK
/kənfˈɛsɐ/
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NOUN
- a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
- someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
How To Use confessor In A Sentence
- -- 'Sire, my confessor was my friend; it would be very painful to me.' Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
- As a complete man, constant, generous, full of honest courage, as a hardy follower of Thought wherever she might lead him, above all, as a confessor of that Truth which is forever revealing itself to the seeker, and is the more loved because never wholly revealable, he is an ennobling possession of mankind. Among My Books First Series
- As early as 1532, in a famous memorial meant for Clement VII, he called for the repression of the friars, priests, preachers, confessors, and books he saw as responsible for the spread of heretical ideas among the Italian populace.
- Martyrs did not entirely disappear, but they were different from their late antique predecessors; they might be bishops killed in political strife, missionaries killed by pagans, or confessors being ‘living dead’.
- Edward the Confessor granted the land to the Abbey of Westminster, and it was disafforested in 1218. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London
- Not only do you have to be a teacher, you must be a parent figure, confessor, psychologist, counselor, public relations expert, and a role model for the community.
- She was hoping that her being there; like a confessor or guardian angel, someone who was not judging and not changing, would help them in someway.
- He has to wait in the church for the other confessors to finish, which leaves him plenty of time to keep meditating on the wretchedness of his sins.
- Catherine asked just a year afterward to be received into a local Augustinian convent, and her confessor supported the petition. RIDDLE ME THIS
- It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.