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confessor

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Etymology

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From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin cōnfessor, from cōnfiteor (“confess, admit, acknowledge”).

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confessor (plural confessors)

  1. One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 174:
      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’.
  2. One who confesses to having done something wrong.
  3. (Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution
    • 1994 October, Larry Gross, “Coming Out On the Soaps”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
      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.

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References

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Beccari, C. (1908) The Catholic Encyclopedia‎[1], New York: Robert Appleton Company, retrieved May 24, 2009, Confessor

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin cōnfessōrem.

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confessor m (plural confessors, feminine confessora)

  1. (Christianity) confessor of the faith
  2. confessor (priest who hears confessions)
    Synonym: confés
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Latin

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cōnfessor m (genitive cōnfessōris); third declension

  1. confessor of the Christian faith
  2. martyr

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cōnfessor cōnfessōrēs
genitive cōnfessōris cōnfessōrum
dative cōnfessōrī cōnfessōribus
accusative cōnfessōrem cōnfessōrēs
ablative cōnfessōre cōnfessōribus
vocative cōnfessor cōnfessōrēs

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin cōnfessōrem.

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  • Hyphenation: con‧fes‧sor

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confessor m (plural confessores, feminine confessora, feminine plural confessoras)

  1. (religion) confessor (one who confesses faith in a religion, especially Christianity)
  2. (Roman Catholicism) confessor (priest who hears confession)

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Noun

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confessor m (plural confessores)

  1. Obsolete spelling of confesor.
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