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Confessant vs Confessor - What's the difference?

confessant | confessor |

As nouns the difference between confessant and confessor

is that confessant is one who confesses to a priest while confessor is one who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.

confessant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) One who confesses to a priest.
  • (Francis Bacon)
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    confessor

    Alternative forms

    * confessour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 174:
  • Confessors provided the troubled Church with an alternative sort of authority based on their sufferings, particularly when arguments began about how and how much to forgive those Christians who had given way to imperial orders – the so-called ‘lapsed’.
  • One who confesses to having done something wrong.
  • (Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution
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