Confessor
[kən'fesə] or [kən'fɛsɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a priest who hears confession and gives absolution.
(noun.) someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves).
巴纳德編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith.
(n.) A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.
校對:罗尼
例句/造句/用法:
- Indeed, the doctor is perhaps the safer confessor of the twothough he has not grey hair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The royal Confessor was endowed by heaven with power to cleanse the ulcers of the body, but only God himself can cure the leprosy of the soul. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The noble Athelstane of Coningsburgh is no more--the last sprout of the sainted Confessor! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- She was a Roman Catholic; and I believe her confessor confirmed the idea which she had conceived. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- His conferences with his confessor I might guess; the part duty and religion were made to play in the persuasions used, I might conjecture. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- But I said I would not make you my confessor, for you cannot reciprocate foible for foible; you are not weak. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You are not my father confessor, answered Meyler roughly, and then ran downstairs, got into his carriage, and drove off without farther ceremony. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- She heard him murmur to himself, 'The martyrs and confessors had even more pain to bear--I will not shrink. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
校對:内尔