father confessor
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
Example Sentences
- "Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to be a proper physician in the fullest sense of the word."
Inflected Forms
father confessors (plural)