confessor
Meaning of confessor
- a priest who hears confessions and gives absolution and spiritual counsel.
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.
- a person who makes a confession.
if one prisoner confesses and implicates the other, the confessor will go free as a reward
Old English (in confessor (sense 2)): from Old French confessour, from ecclesiastical Latin confessor, from Latin confess- ‘acknowledged’ (see confess).
Information about confessor
- It is a name.
- The plural form of confessor is: confessors.
- Languages in which confessor is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of confessor
con-fes-sor
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- confessor is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of confessor
- French: confesseur
- Spanish: confesor
- Italian: confessore
Words that rhyme with confessor
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