Exact Match:
- confessor
- a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
- someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- cassock
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- DD,
- Doctor of Divinity,
- Holy Joe,
- abbe,
- cassock,
- chaplain,
- churchman,
- clergyman,
- cleric,
- clerical,
- clerk,
- confessor,
- curate,
- cure,
- divine,
- ecclesiastic,
- father,
- father confessor,
- father in Christ,
- gallach,
- man of God,
- military chaplain,
- minister,
- parish priest,
- parson,
- pastor,
- penitentiary,
- presbyter,
- priest,
- rector,
- reverend,
- servant of God,
- shepherd,
- sky pilot,
- spiritual director,
- spiritual father,
- supply clergy,
- supply minister,
- the Reverend,
- the very Reverend,
- tonsured cleric
- priest
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- a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders
- a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion related words >
- Aaronic priesthood,
- Levite,
- Melchizedek priesthood,
- Seventy,
- abbe,
- abbess,
- abbot,
- acolyte,
- acolytus,
- apostle,
- baal kore,
- bishop,
- cantor,
- cassock,
- celibataire,
- celibate,
- chief rabbi,
- churchman,
- churchwoman,
- clergyman,
- clergywoman,
- cleric,
- confessor,
- curate,
- cure,
- deacon,
- diaconus,
- divine,
- doorkeeper,
- ecclesiastic,
- elder,
- evangelist,
- exorcist,
- exorcista,
- father,
- father confessor,
- father in Christ,
- gallach,
- high priest,
- holy man,
- holy orders,
- kohen,
- lector,
- major orders,
- man of God,
- minor orders,
- misogamist,
- misogynist,
- missionary,
- monastic,
- monk,
- mother,
- nun,
- ostiarius,
- padre,
- parish priest,
- patriarch,
- penitentiary,
- preacher,
- presbyter,
- rabbi,
- rabbin,
- reader,
- reverend,
- scribe,
- servant of God,
- single,
- spiritual director,
- spiritual father,
- subdeacon,
- subdiaconus,
- teacher,
- unmarried,
- vicar
- penitent
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- (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
- feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds related words >
- penitentiary
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- a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
- used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers; "penitentiary institutions" related words >
- Grand Penitentiary,
- Holy Father,
- POW camp,
- abuna,
- antipope,
- archbishop,
- archdeacon,
- archpriest,
- bail,
- bastille,
- bishop,
- bishop coadjutor,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- can,
- canon,
- cardinal,
- cardinal bishop,
- cardinal deacon,
- cardinal priest,
- cassock,
- cell,
- chaplain,
- coadjutor,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- confessor,
- cooler,
- coop,
- curate,
- cure,
- dean,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- diocesan,
- ecclesiarch,
- exarch,
- father,
- father confessor,
- father in Christ,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gallach,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- hierarch,
- high priest,
- hoosegow,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- metropolitan,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- padre,
- papa,
- parish priest,
- patriarch,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- pontiff,
- pope,
- prebendary,
- prelate,
- presbyter,
- priest,
- primate,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- rector,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- rural dean,
- spiritual director,
- spiritual father,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- subdean,
- suffragan,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school,
- vicar
- father
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- God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father"
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta"
- `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization; "the tennis fathers ruled in her favor"; "the city fathers endorsed the proposal" related words >
- Establishment,
- VIP,
- abba,
- abbe,
- affiliate to,
- agent,
- ancestor,
- ancestors,
- apprentice,
- architect,
- artificer,
- artist,
- aunt,
- auntie,
- author,
- baron,
- bear,
- beget,
- begetter,
- beginner,
- big gun,
- big man,
- big name,
- bigwig,
- birth,
- blood brother,
- brass,
- brass hat,
- breed,
- breed true,
- brethren,
- bring about,
- bring forth,
- bring to birth,
- bring to effect,
- bring to pass,
- brother,
- bub,
- bubba,
- bud,
- buddy,
- builder,
- cassock,
- catalyst,
- cause,
- causer,
- celebrity,
- chaplain,
- clergyman,
- conceive,
- conceiver,
- confessor,
- constructor,
- copulate,
- country cousin,
- cousin,
- cousin once removed,
- cousin twice removed,
- craftsman,
- create,
- creator,
- crossbreed,
- cure,
- dad,
- daddy,
- daughter,
- dean,
- derive from,
- designer,
- deviser,
- dignitary,
- dignity,
- discoverer,
- do,
- doyen,
- doyenne,
- effect,
- effector,
- effectuate,
- elder,
- eldest,
- encourager,
- engender,
- engenderer,
- engineer,
- establish,
- executor,
- executrix,
- father confessor,
- father in Christ,
- figure,
- filiate to,
- first cousin,
- first-born,
- firstling,
- forebear,
- forefather,
- foster brother,
- foster father,
- found,
- founder,
- frame,
- framer,
- frater,
- gallach,
- generate,
- generator,
- genitor,
- gestate,
- get,
- give birth to,
- give occasion to,
- give origin to,
- give rise to,
- governor,
- grandnephew,
- grandniece,
- granduncle,
- great man,
- great-aunt,
- great-uncle,
- grower,
- half brother,
- hatch,
- important person,
- inaugurate,
- inaugurator,
- inbreed,
- industrialist,
- initiate,
- initiator,
- inspirer,
- instigator,
- institute,
- institutor,
- interests,
- introducer,
- invent,
- inventor,
- journeyman,
- kid brother,
- lion,
- lords of creation,
- magnate,
- make,
- make love,
- maker,
- man of mark,
- manufacturer,
- master,
- master craftsman,
- minister,
- mogul,
- mother,
- motor,
- mover,
- multiply,
- nabob,
- name,
- nephew,
- niece,
- notability,
- notable,
- nuncle,
- nunks,
- nunky,
- occasion,
- old boy,
- old man,
- older,
- oldest,
- organizer,
- originate,
- originator,
- outbreed,
- pa,
- padre,
- panjandrum,
- pap,
- papa,
- pappy,
- parent,
- parish priest,
- parson,
- past master,
- pastor,
- pater,
- paterfamilias,
- patriarch,
- penitentiary,
- person of renown,
- personage,
- personality,
- pillar of society,
- planner,
- pop,
- pops,
- power,
- power elite,
- precursor,
- presbyter,
- priest,
- prime mover,
- primogenitor,
- primum mobile,
- procreate,
- produce,
- producer,
- progenerate,
- progenitor,
- proliferate,
- promoter,
- propagate,
- raiser,
- realize,
- realizer,
- reproduce in kind,
- ruling circle,
- sachem,
- second cousin,
- senior,
- set afloat,
- set on foot,
- set up,
- shaper,
- shepherd,
- sire,
- sis,
- sissy,
- sister,
- sister-german,
- sistern,
- sky pilot,
- smith,
- soil,
- somebody,
- something,
- son,
- spawn,
- spiritual director,
- spiritual father,
- stepbrother,
- stepfather,
- stepsister,
- supporter,
- the great,
- the old man,
- the top,
- top brass,
- top people,
- trace to,
- tycoon,
- unc,
- uncle,
- uncs,
- uterine brother,
- very important person,
- work,
- worthy,
- wright
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