confessor是什么意思？

confessor

英[kənˈfesə(r)] 美[kənˈfɛsɚ]

• n. 自白者，为信教而被迫害的教徒；

复数：confessors;

例句

• Should I be your professor or confessor? 我要做你的导师还是听你忏悔的神父?
• It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor. [谚]蠢羊才向狼忏悔。
• He was their adviser, confidant and father confessor. 他是他们的顾问、密友和倾听者。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  告解神甫；告解司铎
  A confessor is a priest who hears a person's confession.
• N-COUNT
  倾诉对象
  If you describe someone as your confessor, you mean that they are the person you can talk to about your secrets or problems.
  例句
  He was their adviser, confidant and father confessor. 他是他们的顾问、密友和倾听者。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
  2. someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)