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father confessor

father confessor noun: a priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.

Noun

father confessor (plural father confessors)

  1. A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
    Synonyms:
    confessor
  2. (broadly) A person who listens to others and gives them advice on private matters; a spiritual guide.
    • Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to...1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763

Synonyms of father confessor

Forms of father confessor

pluralfather confessors

Questions about father confessor

What does father confessor mean?
Father confessor means a priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
What part of speech is father confessor?
Father confessor is a noun.
What is the plural of father confessor?
The plural of father confessor is father confessors.

Words near father confessor in the dictionary

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  4. Father Christmases
  5. Father Christmasses
  6. father confessor
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  8. father figure
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  10. Father Frost
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