Examples of confessor

• Her confessor, a holy man, assured her that under the circumstances Heaven would pardon the neglect. 

• In everything, too, they must obey without comment, the superior and the confessors. 

• The confessor tried to reassure her, but his trembling voice only increased her alarm. 

• The executioner uncovered his head and showed the confessor that the eyes were closed and that the heart had ceased to beat. 

• Yet he had a heart which, if he could find a confessor whom he could trust, he longed to ease in confidence. 

• The nature of our sources may account for this silence : martyrs and confessors, through their sufferings, were purging themselves of their sins in this world.

• But his words also imply the way in which a confessor would claim and assume office as presbyter or deacon.

• Such open families are not necessarily female-dominated, but their fathers are often rendered strategically absent by the father confessor.