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Confessor
/kənˈfɛsə/
One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
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noun
- 1
One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
- 2
One who confesses to having done something wrong.
- 3
A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| priestnoun | A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple. |
| istenoun | — |
| protomartyrnoun | Any of the first Christian martyrs. |
| confessing churchnoun | (Christianity, historical) A movement within German Protestantism during Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church. |
| hosiomartyrnoun | (Christianity) A martyred monk or nun. |
| hieromartyrnoun | (Christianity) A martyr in the Eastern Church who was a bishop or priest |
| protomartyrdomnoun | The martyrdom of a protomartyr. |
| christianizernoun | One who Christianizes. |
| sacrificatinoun | (historical) In the early Christian church, those who sacrificed to idols in persecution, but returned as penitents afterwards. |
| great martyrnoun | (Eastern Orthodoxy) A saint who was martyred after suffering great torture. |
| redemptionistnoun | A proponent of redemptionism. |
| continuistnoun | (Christianity) One who believes in continuationism. |
| pre-christiannoun | Pertaining to the time before the arrival of Christianity, particularly in Western Europe. |
| patripassiannoun | A believer in Patripassianism. |
| flaciannoun | (Christianity, historical) A Gnesio-Lutheran. |
| apocryphalistnoun | (Christianity) A writer of the Apocrypha in the Bible. |
| passionarynoun | A book in which the sufferings of saints and martyrs are described |
| neophytenoun | A beginner; a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief. |
| baptism of bloodnoun | (Christianity) Christian martyrdom |
| even-christiannoun | (obsolete) A fellow Christian. |
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