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Word: Confessor
Speech Type: Noun
Old English (in confessor (sense 2)): from Old French confessour, from ecclesiastical Latin confessor, from Latin confess- ‘acknowledged’ (see confess)
kənˈfɛsə
a priest who hears confessions and gives absolution and spiritual counsel
Short Definition:priest who hears confessions
Examples:- she sent for her confessor because she was in mortal sin
a person who avows religious faith in the face of opposition, but does not suffer martyrdom.
Short Definition:person avowing religious faith
a person who makes a confession
Short Definition:person who making confession
Examples:- if one prisoner confesses and implicates the other, the confessor will go free as a reward
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