Confessor

/kənfˈɛsɐ/

/kənfˈɛsɚ/

[noun]

Confessor

[NOUN]

a priest who hears confession and gives absolution

someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)

Examples

1. Confessors became somewhat of like charismatic authority figures in the early church.

2. Queen’s Confessor Up until the 15th century, the rulers of Castile and Aragon governed a series of separate district kingdoms with the Iberian Peninsula.

3. Theophanes the Confessor recalls these events in his chronicle.

4. I am your confessor.