Confessor
[kən'fesə] or [kən'fɛsɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a priest who hears confession and gives absolution.
(noun.) someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves).
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Definition
(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.
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Examples
- Indeed, the doctor is perhaps the safer confessor of the twothough he has not grey hair. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- 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. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The noble Athelstane of Coningsburgh is no more--the last sprout of the sainted Confessor! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She was a Roman Catholic; and I believe her confessor confirmed the idea which she had conceived. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- His conferences with his confessor I might guess; the part duty and religion were made to play in the persuasions used, I might conjecture. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But I said I would not make you my confessor, for you cannot reciprocate foible for foible; you are not weak. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You are not my father confessor, answered Meyler roughly, and then ran downstairs, got into his carriage, and drove off without farther ceremony. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She heard him murmur to himself, 'The martyrs and confessors had even more pain to bear--I will not shrink. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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