Confessors is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONFESSORS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CONFESSOR, 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one who gives heroic evidence of faith but does not suffer martyrdom

Words related to CONFESSORS

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Words that contain CONFESSORS

confessorship23 confessorships24

How to use CONFESSORS in a sentence

• Saints, martyrs, confessors, evangelists, and singing children have joined its historic train.
• He was governed, so far as he was governed at all, by Jesuit confessors.
• The Dominicans confined their teachings to the upper classes, and became their favorite confessors.
• So monarchs retained in their service confessors who imposed such easy obligations.
• They have no jealous wives to pry into their secrets, and their position as confessors and spiritual advisers affords them plenty of pretexts for being alone with the women.
• Almost all its professors, attached to the house of Stuart, had been martyrs, or confessors at least, in its cause.
• Regard us, if you will, as two confessors, with whom your secret is inviolable.
• They hold not with falsehood in a good cause as our father confessors do.
• Such continued long to be the fate of the Christian confessors.
• That royal decree is in the book of advice to confessors of Indians which father Fray Juan Baptista, of the Order of St.
• Although the confessors of Christ undergo great suffering, they do so with joy and invincible constancy.
• It was no wonder that the Jesuits became rapidly fashionable as confessors.
• The confessors had taken their stand, and they were not to be moved from it.
• But with them passive obedience and divine right had been raised to the level of a great religious principle for which they were well content to be confessors.
• Thirdly, the altar which is in the midst of the church, in honour of the holy Confessors, Martin the Bishop, Willibrord the Bishop, Nicholas the Bishop, and Antony the Confessor.
• Who can count the confessors who have thought it bliss and glory to be martyrs for truth and God? Creatures capable of such deeds must inherit eternity.
• But the whole root of my evil lay in my not thoroughly avoiding all occasions of sin, and in my confessors, who helped me at that time so little.
• The confessors at Lyons openly expressed their full sympathy with the movement in Asia.
• May the holy and wonderful company of martyrs and confessors, who by their holy works are found pleasing to God Almighty, curse him or them.
• The military confessors were further encouraged in disobedience to superiors, by that spiritual pride to which a mistaken piety is so subject.
• Listen, confessors and pontiffs, to my woeful story.
• No one listened, and all the confessors were tumultuously shaking their palms and their crowns.
• The same preparations had been made with all the other culprits, and the confessors stood by the side of each victim.
• It may even be that the theories of some Christian confessors respecting the person of Christ have been modified, so that his humanity is more strongly affirmed than once it was.
• She had two confessors, of whom one counselled her to tell everything, the other nothing.
• The Jesuit party insinuated itself at Court, and assumed to govern as in the high times of the confessors of Louis XIV.
• In our profession, you see, we are obliged to observe as much secrecy and discretion as confessors and physicians.
• There be the prudent prophets all, The apostles six and six, The glorious martyrs in a row, And confessors betwixt.
• Surely a Church with a whole priesthood of such confessors would produce a model world.
• But the Spanish confessors have an interest over and above these, both by reason of their number and the constancy which they displayed in their self-imposed task.
• They fall naturally into the position of confessors to the community, for the community requires confessors of some sort.
• They are good people, these social confessors, though they seldom give much advice.
• How did the three confessors meet this rumble of thunder about their ears? The quiet determination of their reply is very striking and beautiful.
• Men have often been both confessors and inquisitors.

Similar words containing NFESSOR without suffix s and without prefix co

confessor14 confessoress17 confessorship23 confessoresses19 confessorships24

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