confessor

IPA: kʌnfˈɛsɝ

noun

  • One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
  • One who confesses to having done something wrong.
  • (Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution
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Examples of "confessor" in Sentences

  • He was the confessor of the church.
  • In answer the confessor says almost exactly the Misereatur.
  • The Curtana is also known as the Sword of King Edward the Confessor.
  • He became the confessor for Victor Amadeus II of the House of Savoy.
  • In the time of King Edward the Confessor it was valued at four pounds.
  • The Confessor was actually the third Saxon king by the name of Edward.
  • In the reign of the emperor Constantius he was renowned as a confessor.
  • His crime was to be the confessor of several members of the Gunpowder Plot.
  • It is the image that haunts the man on the precipice and the confessor alike.
  • That was Edward the Confessor who started to build The Palace of Westminster.

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