Confessor

(noun.) a priest who hears confession and gives absolution.

(noun.) someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves).

巴纳德编辑

• Indeed, the doctor is perhaps the safer confessor of the twothough he has not grey hair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The royal Confessor was endowed by heaven with power to cleanse the ulcers of the body, but only God himself can cure the leprosy of the soul. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The noble Athelstane of Coningsburgh is no more--the last sprout of the sainted Confessor! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She was a Roman Catholic; and I believe her confessor confirmed the idea which she had conceived. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• His conferences with his confessor I might guess; the part duty and religion were made to play in the persuasions used, I might conjecture. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But I said I would not make you my confessor, for you cannot reciprocate foible for foible; you are not weak. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You are not my father confessor, answered Meyler roughly, and then ran downstairs, got into his carriage, and drove off without farther ceremony. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She heard him murmur to himself, 'The martyrs and confessors had even more pain to bear--I will not shrink. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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