Noun: confessor
| Singular | confessor |
| Plural | confessors |
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’. [2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 174:]
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Near-synonym: confessant
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They do not feel connected to any gay/lesbian communities. Nor do they feel able to establish relationships with anyone who can support them. Thus an inexperienced but sincere young heterosexual actor can find himself playing not only role model but also confessor and phantom friend to people in great need. [1994 October, Larry Gross, “Coming Out On the Soaps”, in Gay Community News, page 14:]
Nouns inflected like confessor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin cōnfessor, from cōnfiteor (“confess, admit, acknowledge”). By surface analysis, confess + -or. See: Latin Nouns '
cōnfessor'.
Verbs referencing "confessor"
Finnish Nouns
konfessori.