confessor
/kənˈfɛsɚ/ nom C2En français : confesseur
- One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred. · Long before Edward I, the English had a King Edward who they considered a martyr and a King Edward who they considered a confessor.
- One who confesses to having done something wrong. · Near-synonym: confessant
- A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
- Someone who acts as listener and helper.
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Dans la bibliothèque
“Then,” said the count, “I refer you to your confessor.
There is not one of those women, Egyptian, Turkish, or Greek, whom here you call ‘good women,’ who do not know how, by means of chemistry, to stupefy a doctor, and in psychology to amaze a confessor.”
“Are you not his confessor?”
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