Seer vs Confessor - What's the difference?
seer | confessor |
Agent noun of see; one who sees something; an eyewitness.
Someone who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
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 seer and confessor
is that seer is agent noun of see; one who sees something; an eyewitness while confessor is one who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.seer
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Etymology 1
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(en noun)Etymology 2
See sihr.Anagrams
* * * English agent nouns ----confessor
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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’.
