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Definition: Confessor |
ConfessorNoun1. A priest who hears confession and gives absolution. 2. Someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "confessor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Confessor \Con*fess"or\, noun. [Old French expression confessor, French confesseur, from the Latin expression late Latin confessor.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor. |
Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal; ancient flamen, flamen; confessor, penitentiary; spiritual director. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Confessor |
| English words defined with "confessor": Curtana ♦ Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros ♦ Harold II ♦ Jimenez de Cisneros ♦ King Harold II ♦ penitent ♦ Shriver. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "confessor": Flowers and Trees ♦ Havering ♦ LACHAISE ♦ Miracles ♦ Perdrix, toujours Perdrix ♦ Queen's College ♦ Remigius, Rings Noted in Fable ♦ Sword-makers, Symbols of Saints. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Confessor" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (confessor, director). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh hello there father, er confessor, professor, your honour, your grace (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Confessor (1973) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Shrine of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, London, England. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
George Herbert | Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He took a Jesuit confessor, and went both to high mass and to vespers. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Jessie advanced on her, and the perspiration beaded out on the flustery confessor. |
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| "Confessor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.95% of the time. "Confessor" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.95% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.05% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "confessor": Edward the Confessor ♦ father confessor ♦ Saint Edward the Confessor ♦ St Edward the Confessor ♦ sword of Edward the Confessor. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "confessor": father-confessor. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
edward the confessor | 15 |
confessor | 10 |
confessor shadowbane | 6 |
maximus the confessor | 5 |
confessor shadowbane template | 5 |
confessor edward st | 4 |
coin confessor edward | 3 |
ballad confessor | 3 |
confessor template | 3 |
the confessor | 2 |
confessor guide shadowbane | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "confessor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrëfyes, ai që rrëfehet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كاهن الاعتراف, المعترف, المجاهر بإيمانه. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | човек който признава, изповедник. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zpovìdnice, vyznavaè (devotee, fiend, follower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معترف , کسی که کیش خودرااشکارااعتراف میکند, اقراراورنده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rippi-isä (father confessor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | confesseur (confidant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beichtvater. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πνευματικόσ (ghostly, pneumatic, spiritual), εξομόλογοσ, εξομολογητήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כומר ו"וי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyóntató, hitvalló (professor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | confessore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 聴聞僧 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ちょうも"そう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ayr feyshtyney, annym-charrey (spiritual adviser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onfessorcay confessor (director), mártir (martyr), aquele que confessa. (various references) cel care face confesiune, duhovnic (father, spiritual adviser, spiritual director). (various references) духовное лицо (cleric, clerk, ecclesiastic). (various references) ispovednik. (various references) confesor. (various references) biktfader. (various references) tehlike karşısında dinini inkâr eden kimse, itirafçı (approver), günah çıkaran papaz. (various references) сповідник, духівник (nurse-father). (various references) giáo sĩ nghe xưng tội người xưng tội. (various references) cyffesydd, cyffeswr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | penintentiarius. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "confessor": confessors. (additional references) | |
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"Confessor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: confessore, confeteor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "confessor" (pronounced 'Con*fess"or'): Acceptor, Assertor, Assessor, Assistor, Assizor, Attractor, Chantor, Circumventor, Co-assessor, Collector, Compressor, Conductor, Conjector, Connector, Consignor, Constrictor, constructor, Contractor, Contradictor, Conveyor, Corrector, Countor, Cruor, Debtor, Decolor, Deflector, Deforceor, Devisor, Duressor, Embraceor, Encolor, Escheator, flexor, grantor, ignitor, inductor, inspector, instructor, INVENTOR, investor, Mainor, Maintainor, manor, mayor, Miscolor, misdemeanor, Nonconductor, Objector, Oppressor, Overcolor. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-n-o-o-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: censors, confers, confess, frescos, noosers, roscoes, sooners. | |
-3 letters: censor, confer, cooers, corses, crones, croons, crosse, forces, fresco, nooser, nooses, recons, rooses, roscoe, scones, scores, scorns, senors, sensor, snores, sooner. | |
-4 letters: ceros, cones, cooer, coofs, coons, cores, corns, corse, coses, cress, crone, croon, cross, ferns, force, fores, fosse, froes, frons, noose, noses, onces, recon. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-n-o-o-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: confessors. | |
+3 letters: colorfulness. | |
+4 letters: colorfastness, ferociousness, ferrosilicons, overfocussing. | |
+5 letters: colorfulnesses, vociferousness. | |
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