Confession vs Confessor - What's the difference?
confession | confessor |
The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).
* Shakespeare
A formal document providing such an admission.
(Roman Catholicism) the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. Now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
* (First Folio ed.)
Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
* Bible, Rom. x. 10
A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
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:
One who confesses to having done something wrong.
(Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution
As nouns the difference between confession and confessor
is that confession is the open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad) while confessor is one who confesses faith in christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.confession
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Noun
(wikipedia confession) (en noun)- Without the real murderer's confession , an innocent person will go to jail.
- With a crafty madness keeps aloof, / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.
- He forced me to sign a confession !
- I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
- Hauing di?plea?'d my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confe??ion , and to be ab?olu'd.
- With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Derived terms
* confessional * nonconfessionconfessor
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(wikipedia confessor)Alternative forms
* confessour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- 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’.