Usually means: Person who hears and absolves confessions.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. confessor: Merriam-Webster
  2. confessor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confessor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confessor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confessor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confessor, confessor: Wordnik
  7. confessor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confessor: Wiktionary
  9. confessor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confessor (confesser): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confessor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Confessor, confessor, the confessor: Dictionary.com
  13. Confessor (band), Confessor (disambiguation), Confessor (novel), Confessor, The Confessor (Daniel Silva novel), The Confessor (album), The Confessor (film), The Confessor (novel), The Confessor (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Confessor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. confessor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. confessor: Rhymezone
  17. Confessor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. confessor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. confessor: FreeDictionary.org
  20. confessor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. confessor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. confessor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. confessor: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. confessor: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confessor: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Confessor: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
noun:  One who confesses to having done something wrong.
noun:  (Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution

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