confessor

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/kənˈfɛsə/ English

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noun

One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
One who confesses to having done something wrong.
A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution

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priest iste protomartyr confessing church hosiomartyr hieromartyr protomartyrdom christianizer sacrificati great martyr redemptionist continuist pre-christian patripassian flacian apocryphalist

Associated

penitent absolution conqueror domesday godwin canonized wessex martyr maximus confession friar theologian

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