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词汇 confessor
释义 confessor
noun[ C ]
uk /kənˈfes.ər/ us /kənˈfes.ɚ/
a priest who someone can confess to听忏悔的神父,告解神父
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Religious leaders & officials
anti-papal
apostolic
archbishop
archbishopric
archdeacon
clerically
curacy
curate
deacon
minister
ministry
muezzin
mullah
non-clerical
priestly
primate
rabbi
rabbinical
the Dalai Lama
the priesthood
Examples from literature

Her confessor, a holy man, assured her that under the circumstances Heaven would pardon the neglect. 
In everything, too, they must obey without comment, the superior and the confessors. 
The confessor tried to reassure her, but his trembling voice only increased her alarm. 
The executioner uncovered his head and showed the confessor that the eyes were closed and that the heart had ceased to beat. 
Yet he had a heart which, if he could find a confessor whom he could trust, he longed to ease in confidence. 

Examples of confessor


confessor
The nature of our sources may account for this silence : martyrs and confessors, through their sufferings, were purging themselves of their sins in this world.
But his words also imply the way in which a confessor would claim and assume office as presbyter or deacon.
Such open families are not necessarily female-dominated, but their fathers are often rendered strategically absent by the father confessor.
Friars were frequently confessors and the prayers of monks were thought to be particularly powerful.
He viewed me as somewhat of a confessor, a third party listener with whom he could share his thoughts.
The reprieves granted to confessors were the last decisions the court was allowed to make.
In both cases the confessors needed a bishop neither for their own ordination nor, if ordained, to give absolution.
Even confessors were exhorted to scrutinize the conscience of the sinner in confession as a physician scrutinizes wounds.
We should notice that he conflates what doctrines do with what their confessors believe or intend that they do.
Breviaries frequently furnished only the collect, and the celebrants were directed to the common of confessors.
Approximately one-third of its chants borrow from the venerable offices of major temporal feasts, as well as the common of confessor bishops.
His office does not seem to have been simply taken over in toto from the common of confessors.
Marginal rubrics identify these chants as being for confessors.
Far from providing options of choice throughout the summer, the decisions concerning confessors were the last decisions the court was allowed to make.
Such was the character of the threat to the social fabric of absolution by the confessors.
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