a priest who hears confessions and gives absolution and spiritual counsel 听取忏悔的神父,告解神父 ■a person to whom another confides personal problems 听取他人吐露个人问题者
a person who avows religious faith in the face of opposition, but does not suffer martyrdom 不畏反对公开宣布其宗教信仰但未殉教者
a person who makes a confession 供认者;承认者;忏悔者,告解者
语源
Old English (in sense 2): from Old French confessour, from ecclesiastical Latin confessor, from Latin confess- 'acknowledged' (see confess)