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Recent Examples of confessor
Forcing priests to divulge confessions, while exempting all manner of secular confessors, is rank religious discrimination.
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Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 May 2025
Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.
—Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
The outsize little girl, so clearly nonhuman and yet so sympathetic, is an older-than-her-years figure of commiseration, a confessor to kids and adults in a refugee camp and, wrenchingly, to a man from Gambia who describes his journey to the Continent.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 May 2025
Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.
—Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
The outsize little girl, so clearly nonhuman and yet so sympathetic, is an older-than-her-years figure of commiseration, a confessor to kids and adults in a refugee camp and, wrenchingly, to a man from Gambia who describes his journey to the Continent.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for confessor
Noun
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The longtime Loyola chaplain died in Illinois, the school shared while announcing her death earlier this month.—
Natasha Dye,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Her parents waited outside, praying with the hospital’s chaplain.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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Scott Venable, lead pastor of Northwood Church in Keller, said the city has never been at risk of being governed by sharia or any other foreign laws.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Jan. 2026
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This intrepid empire builder is married to the pastor, and not here to make friends.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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As for the rector’s other housemates – a pair of scene-stealing dachshunds – Lewis is happily resigned to being upstaged.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
28 Sep. 2025
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More than two dozen UVA Health leaders signed a letter to the university's rector and interim president, asking them to give Rosner the permanent position, the organization said in a news release.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The archdiocese’s vicar general, the Rev. John Riley, has been appointed as the parish’s temporary administrator, the archdiocese said.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
22 Sep. 2025
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Aquila served as a parochial vicar in two parishes from 1976 to 1982 and then as pastor at Denver’s Guardian Angels Parish from 1982 to 1987.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2025
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It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Among the beetle-collecting country parsons of his day, it was often assumed that the world had been created six thousand years ago and that many geological anomalies could be explained by Noah’s Flood.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Prevost was becoming a bishop of consequence.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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The attack hit the Sokoto region of northwestern Nigeria, an area where a local Catholic bishop said in October that Christians aren't facing persecution.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Dec. 2025
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Local spats could now feed into a mass movement that spread far beyond individual disputes between a peasant and a particularly nasty abbot or lord.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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By the 1930s the newly emerging field of genetics was growing in popularity, based primarily on the studies of the Austrian biologist and Catholic abbot Gregor Mendel.—
D. Scott Schmid,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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Due to not being a parish church, weddings are only allowed at the landmark after permission is granted from the archbishop.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
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In addition to Longo, Pope Leo elevated six other men and women to sainthood, including an Armenian archbishop tortured and killed after refusing to renounce Catholicism, a Venezuelan physician who dedicated his service to the poor and several nuns who spent decades helping the downtrodden.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Confessor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confessor. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.
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