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Confession vs Confessor - What's the difference?

confession | confessor |

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

English

Noun

(wikipedia confession) (en noun)
  • The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).
  • Without the real murderer's confession , an innocent person will go to jail.
  • * Shakespeare
  • With a crafty madness keeps aloof, / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.
  • A formal document providing such an admission.
  • He forced me to sign a confession !
  • (Roman Catholicism) the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. Now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
  • I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
  • * (First Folio ed.)
  • Hauing di?plea?'d my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confe??ion , and to be ab?olu'd.
  • Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
  • * Bible, Rom. x. 10
  • With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * confessional * nonconfession

    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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