confessor:
(also, less commonly, with the spelling ‘confesser’; plural: ‘confessors‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is pronounced with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)
a criminal confessor before a police officer
a person who admits his crime to others, i.e. a person who does bad things (crimes) and later says he has done so when questioned, usually to friends, the police or a court of law;
a person who admits his faults, crimes or sins to a priest in Christian Church;
a priest (father) in Christian Church who is authorised to hear the sins of others and give those sinners some guidance or solace; and also a priest who gives spiritual guidance to a person;
a person who believes in Christianity and follows Christianity though there is a danger of his/her being given punishment or harassed (persecution) for doing that,
two confessor — sinner (R) before a priest
A confessor pleading guilty of some crime gets less punishment in a court of law than the one who pleads innocence (not guilty).
James is a regular confessor and he believes more in doing something wrong and then going to the confessor, the local priest at the church, than in not doing any crimes.
The philosophy of confession and forgiving confessors is something even most learned people feel apprehensive about because when people do something wrong and then confess before a religious confessor, usually a priest at a local church, or before a judge in a court of law, everything is forgotten and the wrong-doers are forgiven, but nobody bothers about the victims and their suffering and losses are always ignored!
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