Word Meanings - CONFESSOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. He who dies for religion is a martyr; he

Additional info about word: CONFESSOR

1. 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. He who dies for religion is a martyr; he who suffers for it is a confessor. Latham. Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood of so many martyrs and confessors. Bacon. 2. A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONFESSOR)

• Confidant
• Confessor
• adviser
• confederate

Related words: (words related to CONFESSOR)

• ADVISER
  One who advises.
• ADVISERSHIP
  The office of an adviser.
• CONFESSORSHIP
  The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.
• CONFIDANT; CONFIDANTE
  One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend. You love me for no other end Than to become my confidant and friend; As such I keep no secret from your sight. Dryden.
• CONFEDERATE
  Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money. (more info) join
• CONFEDERATER
  A confederate.
• CONFESSOR
  1. 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. He who dies for religion is a martyr; he