(n.) One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith.
(n.) A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) After completing his doctoral dissertation in Germany, Bergoglio served as a confessor and spiritual director in Cordoba.
(2) Over more than 50 years, from a post-Cambridge traineeship with the Associated-Rediffusion ITV franchise to a role with al-Jazeera, Frost was the interviewer of eight UK prime ministers and seven US presidents, a pioneer of TV satire and comedy, the tormentor-confessor of Richard Nixon, a TV entrepreneur and early innovator of self-production, a master of the chatshow sofa and a long-running gameshow host.
(3) It was hypothesized that the resisters would score significantly lower on tests of suggestibility and compliance than the alleged false confessors.
(4) "I had proposed a business venture, but instead I became a kind of confessor," he said.
(5) The effect of this has been cathartic on Munn, who seems to have grown into the character of celebrity confessor.
(6) That device – tracker, confessor, memoir and ledger – should be designed so that it is as hard as possible to gain unauthorised access to.
(7) Cromwell protested at such "dross and dung", but consented to wear a purple gown and sit on Edward the Confessor's throne in Westminster Hall.
(8) A group of 100 alleged false confessors was compared with 104 other forensic referrals on four psychological variables.
(9) Half of the subjects were alone in an experimental cubicle and talked into a tape recorder; the remaining subjects talked to a silent "confessor" who sat behind a curtain.
(10) Are you not in a state of grace?” Yet he infuriated the church with a speech at the great Catholic university in Indiana, Notre Dame , in which he equivocated like any 17th-century Jesuit confessor to royalty about the politics of abortion: "God should not," he dared to say to that audience, “be made into a celestial party chairman."
(11) She’s not your mother, your best friend or your confessor; a time machine to the 90s, the solution to the nation’s increasing divisiveness, or the correct variable in a complicated equation that equals 538; a reflection of what you want to hear, or the embodiment of what you want a “leader” to believe.
(12) Leonard was a compassionate and painstaking confessor and adviser.
(13) A separate analysis of 14 resisters and 72 alleged false confessors, where IQ and memory were used as covariates rather than 'matching' the two groups on the relevant variables, gave almost identical results.
(14) The presence of a confessor inhibited subjects' talking.
(15) The track that currently gets the most rewinds A Band Called Flash: Mother Confessor Facebook Twitter Pinterest This sounds like it could have could have been a lost Paradise Garage gem, but it was only released last year.
(16) He succeeded, of course, and in the process was ennobled and came to be regarded by many of Labour's premier players as a sage – a confessor figure, even.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The practice of royal touching as a cure for scrofula began in the 11th century with King Edward the Confessor, pictured here with a leper.
(18) This paper describes a study which compares the interrogative suggestibility and compliance scores of 20 alleged false confessors and 20 subjects who had persistently denied their involvement in the crime they were charged with in spite of forensic evidence against them (labelled 'resisters').
(19) Court papers allege that Zuley told Harris: “You’re only minutes away from being $20,000 richer.” The stick – as with Benita Johnson five years later in Chicago and Mohamedou Ould Slahi in Guantanamo come 2003 – was the would-be confessor’s family.
Faith
Definition:
(n.) Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.
(n.) The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth.
(n.) The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.
(n.) The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith.
(n.) That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church.
(n.) Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty.
(n.) Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith.
(n.) Credibility or truth.
(interj.) By my faith; in truth; verily.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
(2) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(3) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(4) This was faithfully reflected in the pattern of pulsatile LH discharges.
(5) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
(6) Several former hostages, now safely in Europe, say he had spent the past year true to the creed of his new faith.
(7) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(8) In such circumstances faith in the project inevitably ebbs among the faithful.
(9) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(10) He called for care for the environment to be added to the seven spiritual works of mercy outlined in the Gospel that the faithful are asked to perform throughout the pope’s year of mercy in 2016.
(11) Theresa May’s efforts as home secretary to launch the inquiry in 2014 revealed a rush to judgment and a faith that the great and the good – our own or somebody else’s – could get hold of this and control it.
(12) "He is a person of faith and he has shown his greatness in a very short time," said Diego Moreno, who had travelled with two friends from Mendoza in Argentina.
(13) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
(14) A letter from the Islamic Society of Britain and the Association of Muslim Lawyers pointed out that this group has no standing among faithful Muslims and it is certainly not a state.
(15) Then there are the divisions of ethnicity, faith and caste, the ancient social hierarchy prevalent in much of south Asia.
(16) Ultimately, like in virtually any other industry, having faith in a product or a system comes from past experiences and referrals from people you trust about what to expect.
(17) She was also a pacifist and lived her Catholic faith, no matter how difficult that made her life.
(18) Faith said: “The Tories are going to have to think very carefully about how they implement £12bn cuts.
(19) It’s no good me swearing on a Bible; I don’t share your faith.” Morrison said: “I will do it, Ray, but I think it’s a very offensive thing for you to ask me to do but I’ll do it if that’s what you require...if you insist I will.” Hadley did not persist with the demand.
(20) Cerebellar and adrenal microsomes were used in a ligand-displacement mass assay (conducted under near-physiological conditions, at pH 7.0) on extracts of cerebral-cortex slices stimulated with agonists, and both preparations faithfully detected the increases in Ins(1,3,4,5)P4 that occurred, implying that Ins(1,3,4,5)P4 is the principal ligand on these binding sites in intact cells.