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confessor
[ kuhn-fes-er ]
noun
- a person who confesses.
- a priest authorized to hear confessions.
- a person who confesses faith in and adheres to the Christian religion, especially in spite of persecution and torture but without suffering martyrdom.
- the Confessor. Edward the Confessor.
confessor
/ °ìÉ™²Ôˈ´ÚÉ›²õÉ™ /
noun
- Christianity RC Church a priest who hears confessions and sometimes acts as a spiritual counsellor
- history a person who bears witness to his Christian religious faith by the holiness of his life, esp in resisting threats or danger, but does not suffer martyrdom
- a person who makes a confession
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of confessor1
Example Sentences
And in the second act, he has a crucial existential colloquy with Marianne, Rachel Bay Jones’ wealthy airhead, who reveals a surprising amount of depth in a philosophical back and forth with her uncertain confessor.
He also coaxes his father’s former bodyguard/confessor Colin to come work for him.
Times television critic Mary McNamara said Walters was part confessor, part therapist and succeeded brilliantly at making “emotion newsworthy.â€
He becomes the lord confessor, a nicer name for the royal torturer.
Other suspects included a former Boeing employee, a former Northwest Orient Airlines employee and several deathbed confessors.
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