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Example sentences for "confessor"

Lexicographically close words:
confessione; confessionem; confessiones; confessions; confessioun; confessors; confessour; confessus; confessyon; confest
  1. The High Sheriff,' a non-commissioned officer said, 'had requested of the governor that none should be admitted to see the prisoner excepting his confessor and his sister.

  2. She was made to believe she would see me at a later hour, and this letter, which my confessor will deliver, will apprise her that all is over.

  3. No ordinary confessor could absolve for heresy; it was a sin reserved for the inquisitor, papal or episcopal.

  4. The most that the confessor could have done would have been to send the penitent to some one competent to grant absolution, which would only have been administered under the heaviest penance, including denunciation of the Order.

  5. The Inquisitor of France, Guillaume de Paris, was his confessor as well as papal chaplain, and could be relied upon.

  6. The priest Giacomo Bertola, confessor of the nuns of S.

  7. At the same time they preach the doctrine that the seal of the confessional precludes a penitent from disclosing what the confessor may have said to him, albeit his utterances have had no reference to sins or to the safety of the soul' (ib.

  8. The first of these functionaries, named the Administrator, who was frequently also the confessor of the General, exhorted him to obedience, and reminded him that he must do all things for the glory of God.

  9. At the beginning of the year 1559, the Pope's confessor ventured to bring before his notice the scandalous behavior of the Papal nephews.

  10. It seems that the confessor composed these documents himself, and advised his fair penitent that there was no sin in perusing them.

  11. The Canon Pisnato, who is now confessor to the nuns of Meda; in his house you will find what will never be discovered in mine, presents from nuns, incitements to amours, and other such things.

  12. Peter had been directed by a Jesuit confessor he might have arrived at denying Christ without sin.

  13. He tells the story of a confessor who refused the sacraments to a nobleman, because he owned a treatise written by Quirino in defense of the Venetian prerogatives (vol.

  14. Osio did not allow himself to be discouraged by a first refusal, but took the hazardous step of opening his mind to the confessor of the convent, Paolo Arrigone, a priest of San Maurizio in Milan.

  15. You will fulfill your function as confessor and counselor.

  16. The mother of Edward confessor passed over nine burnynge shares.

  17. From thence, no doubt, it was carried to England, where Edward the Confessor seems to have been the first to cure goitres.

  18. A confessor in Paris refused absolution to a parishioner because he had a Jansenist living in his house, and had sent his grand-daughter to school at Port Royal.

  19. A confessor would therefore have no right to forbid it under pain of sin.

  20. Then there are the associations of the Abbey; the things that have been done in the Abbey: the crowning of the Kings, in a long line from Edward the Confessor downwards.

  21. Although the Kings of England have occasionally lodged in the Tower and even at Baynard's Castle, and other places in the City, the permanent home of the Court was always from Edward the Confessor to Henry VIII.

  22. Did you tell your confessor the state you were in?

  23. He often asked me, but I would not grant his request because our confessor made me promise to withstand him thenceforth, if I wished to be absolved.

  24. Certainly not; the good confessor would not have allowed me to do so; it would have been a great sin.

  25. In the days of Edward the Confessor the men of Rouen and of Flanders became citizens with rights equal to the English.

  26. For outside show the city of Edward the Confessor and that of the second Henry were very nearly the same, and so may be treated together.

  27. By the time of Edward the Confessor the second church was completed; but of this church we have no record whatever.

  28. Even the bones of the Confessor were not respected; but were moved and buried apart, until Queen Mary brought them back and laid them once more in the shrine where they had reposed so long, and where they rest to this day.

  29. Besides the old legend of the first consecration by St. Peter, the belief in many mysteries and miracles connected with the Confessor had grown up with the growth of his Abbey Church.

  30. In Henry the Second's reign Edward the Confessor had been canonized.

  31. Then Edward's Abbey, "consecrated by recollections of the Confessor and the Conqueror," was swept away.

  32. It was to Henry the Third, however, that the thought came of making the Shrine of the Confessor the centre of a burial place for his race.

  33. Under the arches it once supported, Edward the Confessor was buried.

  34. By a silent gesture the confessor assented.

  35. The king's confessor also rode in the carriage.

  36. Her confessor died, and the old lady chose me to supply his place.

  37. From the annals of these palaces English history could be completely reconstructed from the time of Edward the Confessor to the present day.

  38. From the time of Edward the Confessor to the time of Henry VIII.

  39. Ages ago, Edward the Confessor took a fancy to this quiet place by the Thames, and he gave it to his beloved monks of Westminster.

  40. Siward, earl of Northumberland, was commissioned by Edward the Confessor to invade Scotland, and avenge the "murder" of Duncan.

  41. Edward the Confessor promoted foreign ecclesiastics; the connexion with Rome was strengthened, and in 1062 the first legates since the days of Offa were sent to England by Alexander II.

  42. When death approached a confessor was summoned to administer the rites of the Church, and upon death a proper entry was made in the mortuary register, but often under a false name.

  43. From this some clandestine work was suspected and the visits of the confessor were strictly limited to four a year.

  44. There was a chief engineer and a director of fortifications, a doctor and a surgeon, a wet-nurse, a chaplain, a confessor and his coadjutor.

  45. A confessor was instantly summoned, and absolution was pronounced after the King had detailed his sins.

  46. In vain he offers half his kingdom for his life; and when he seeks a confessor from Grahame, the ruffian replies, 'Thou shalt have no confessor but this sword.

  47. Edward the Confessor made the abbot lord of the franchise.

  48. But, at the near approach of death, the confessor was struck with remorse.

  49. A relation of this family had been the regular confessor of a convent.

  50. But be assured, my dear Monsieur d'Artagnan, that if I had obtained them from any other source, or if they had been confided to me, there exists no confessor more discreet than myself.

  51. Athos, while Porthos broke the bottles and Aramis gave orders, a little too late, that a confessor should be sent for.

  52. Mine, Morley," returned the confessor coldly, "are the acts of a man fully awake to coming events.

  53. Heed I say the twain were the Confessor and house-steward of my grandfather?

  54. There he would sometimes remain an hour, while the Confessor walked backwards and forwards reading the daily office which the rules of his order imposed.

  55. The means were so easy and comprehensive, that I could have half persuaded myself that Mr. Clifford's steward and confessor had been of the number of counsellors whom the worthy Colonel had called in.

  56. If the confessor fancied that himself had startling tidings to communicate, one glance at the steward's agitated countenance, assured him that heavier news had yet to be unfolded.

  57. Morley," returned the confessor slowly--"I cannot see how my remaining here could serve you.

  58. As confessor to the establishment, Father Dominic Kelly made Knockloftie his abiding place.

  59. It was a message from Mr. Clifford requiring that the Confessor should attend him instantly.

  60. The confessor had disappeared, having removed all his baggage, none knew where or how.

  61. Edward the Confessor was not canonised for nearly a hundred years after his death, in spite of the repeated appeals made to Rome by the Westminster abbots.

  62. St. John the Evangelist stood upon one, that of the Confessor himself upon the other.

  63. The body of the holy Confessor was buried in presence of Cardinal Alexis, the Papal Legate of Scotland.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confessor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cassock; father; penitent; penitentiary; priest