confessary
English
Etymology
Latin confessarius.
Noun
confessary (plural confessaries)
- (obsolete) One who makes a confession.
- 1708, Dr. George Hickes, preface to Thomas Brett, The Divine Right of Episcopacy Asserted
- God hath left power to the Church, that is, to the Priests of the Church, to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in Him; and therefore directs the Confessary to absolve the confessing penitent of all his sins in the name, &c.
- 1708, Dr. George Hickes, preface to Thomas Brett, The Divine Right of Episcopacy Asserted
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