Other forms: confessors
A confessor is a priest who hears confessions and grants forgiveness. His confessor, the king's confessor, go to a confessor.
What is said is protected by the seal of confession, which is the strictest confidence any profession recognises. A royal confessor was a position of real influence, since nobody else heard so much.
1nounconfessorA priest who hears confessions and grants forgiveness.
“Every Saturday she knelt in the church and told her sins to her confessor.”
confessor is a priest.
Latin confessor comes from confiteri, to acknowledge, from com plus fateri, to admit.
Latin
cōnfessor
Anglo-Norman
confessour
Middle English
confessor
English, today
confessor
Built from
From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin cōnfessor, from cōnfiteor (“confess, admit, acknowledge”). by surface analysis, confess + -or.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA