In medieval times, the laity often visited a confessor before major religious festivals.
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Confessor
/kənˈfɛsə/
Synonyms for "confessor" (13 found)
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Collocations
5 entriesCatholic priestconfessional boothecclesiastical rolereligious leadersaint confessor
Inflections
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3 entriesTranslations
10 translations across 8 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 懺悔者 /忏悔者 noun (one who confesses)
- 自白者 noun (one who confesses)
Greek
1 entries- ομολογητής noun (one who confesses)
Irish
1 entries- admhálaí noun (one who confesses)
Japanese
2 entries- 告白者 noun (one who confesses)
- 自白する人 noun (one who confesses)
Old English
1 entries- andetta noun (one who confesses)
Persian
1 entries- خستو noun (one who confesses)
Russian
1 entries- испове́дник noun (one who confesses)
Swedish
1 entries- bekännare noun (one who confesses)
Sample sentences
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Long before Edward I, the English had a King Edward who they considered a martyr and a King Edward who they considered a confessor.
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Confessors provided the troubled Church with an alternative sort of authority based on their sufferings, particularly when arguments began about how and how much to forgive those Christians who had given way to imperial orders – the so-called ‘lapsed’.
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Near-synonym: confessant
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