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father confessor

noun as in spiritual leader

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This year they are to appear in a play or poem which the Father Confessor has written for us—dealing with the story of Judith.

Within a month the widower came to his father-confessor by night and obtained leave to be married next morning.

Robert was again at the chink, like some penitent whispering through a grating to his father confessor.

Cassandra knitted her brows and stared intently into the face of the woman, who was a virtual father confessor to the parish.

Of a certainty, sweetheart, the man who lay with you and did such fine things was our Father Confessor.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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