father confessor

noun

, Ecclesiastical.

1. confessor ( def 2 ).

father confessor

noun

1. Christianity a priest who hears confessions and advises on religious or moral matters
2. any person to whom one tells private matters

Example Sentences

This year they are to appear in a play or poem which the Father Confessor has written for us—dealing with the story of Judith.

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Within a month the widower came to his father-confessor by night and obtained leave to be married next morning.

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Robert was again at the chink, like some penitent whispering through a grating to his father confessor.

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Cassandra knitted her brows and stared intently into the face of the woman, who was a virtual father confessor to the parish.

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Of a certainty, sweetheart, the man who lay with you and did such fine things was our Father Confessor.

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