Confessor is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONFESSOR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who hears confession
• a priest who hears confessions and gives absolution and spiritual counsel
• a person to whom another confides personal problems.
• a person who avows religious faith in the face of opposition, but does not suffer martyrdom.
• a person who makes a confession
• One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith.
• A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.
• a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
• someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
• priest who hears confessions
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one who gives heroic evidence of faith but does not suffer martyrdom

Words related to CONFESSOR

confessors15

Words that contain CONFESSOR

confessors15 confessoress17 confessorship23 confessoresses19 confessorships24

How to use CONFESSOR in a sentence

• Death of Edward the Confessor, who is succeeded by Harold II.
• Brutus, Arthur, Hengist, Horsa, Edward the Confessor, and William of Normandy are all alike set down as English heroes.
• This brilliant and skeptical man, whose intellect only was left unimpaired by the general decay, lived between a doctor and a confessor, his two antipathies.
• Then he gave him the password for the Tuscan fortresses, and asked for his confessor, and so he passed away.
• The man, at the foot of the gibbet, asked for a confessor, and they went to fetch the cure.
• She had no burden to cast from her conscience, and she sought neither confessor nor director for the guidance of her thinking or doing.
• The history of Windsor Castle commences with the granting of the site of the castle and town to the Abbot of Westminster by Edward the Confessor.
• It first appears among the Royal insignia of England on the coins of Edward the Confessor.
• Her Jesuit confessor, Father La Rue, himself proposed to go and fetch another priest.
• Unhappy, surrounded only by a few pious nuns, and urged by her confessor, she renounced the religion of Mahomet, and became a Christian.
• Under the influence of Torquemada, a Dominican monk, the confessor of Queen Isabella, that princess solicited a bull from the pope for the establishment of the Holy Office.
• Edward Confessor gave the manor to Winchester, and afterwards it became the property of Eleanor, the consort of Edward I.
• For sundry years before he did complain, 210 And told his ghostly confessor his pain.
• His confessor advised him to marry some woman of piety, to help him on in his good work, and he therefore married.
• Almost at once he found himself telling his story incident by incident to the kindly old man who was figuring rather as a father confessor than as a judge and a legal superior.
• Late at night the Pope had to yield, but not till the door of his palace was half burned, and his confessor killed.
• When dinner was done, the confessor thought, standing by the queen, to have been before Mr.
• Francis the Confessor died John, son of Nicolas of Campen, a Lay Brother of great age, who had been the gardener.
• He was a devout Priest and Confessor to the Sisters in that place, having been of old one of the disciples of Florentius, and he was born in Holland near Schoonhoven.
• Both the confessor and the penitent whisper very low, you can hardly hear their voices.
• Especially they produced in her confessor, Father Lacombe, such a ruling admiration, reverence, and tenderness, that he was subdued into a caricature of her.
• But James was entirely governed by the rash counsels of the queen and of his confessor, Father Peters, a Jesuit, whom he soon after created a privy counsellor.
• Even the most popular father confessor of the church could scarcely have heard as many agonizing appeals.
• If it was right for her to tell him anything of the stranger who had been about to make him his confessor, she would do it.
• The shields, also counting from the west, are those of England, France, Mercia, England, Edward the Confessor, and England.
• A Voyage of three Ambassadours who in the time of Edward the Confessor, were sent vnto Constantinople, and from thence to Ephesus, recorded by William of Malmesburie.
• It was a borough as early as the reign of Edward the Confessor, but its corporation was abolished in 1886.
• Louis XIV, urged by his confessor to take one stand and by his ministers to take the other, was sorely puzzled.
• If I could not be to her somewhat as her old confessor was, less than a lover yet more than a brother, I must never see her again.
• In the meantime Valeria had narrated everything in confession to her confessor, being less ashamed than frightened.
• The secrets of many hearts and homes must be told to this confessor, and sadder ailments than the text-books name are brought to be healed by the beloved physicians.
• I knew she had tracked the Prince Camillo and his confessor, and that these two were within the cottage.
• They have carried him north, to Genoa, and with him the Priest who was his confessor.
• Her confessor, a holy man, assured her that under the circumstances Heaven would pardon the neglect.

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