confessor

confessor
noun
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. a person who makes a confession
    供认者;承认者;忏悔者,告解者
语源
  1. Old English (in sense 2): from Old French confessour, from ecclesiastical Latin confessor, from Latin confess- 'acknowledged' (see confess)
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