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father confessor
father confessor
noun
- Christianity a priest who hears confessions and advises on religious or moral matters
- any person to whom one tells private matters
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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.
Within a month the widower came to his father-confessor by night and obtained leave to be married next morning.
Robert was again at the chink, like some penitent whispering through a grating to his father confessor.
Cassandra knitted her brows and stared intently into the face of the woman, who was a virtual father confessor to the parish.
Of a certainty, sweetheart, the man who lay with you and did such fine things was our Father Confessor.
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