ghostly father
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "My ghostly fader, I me confesse, First to God and then to you, That at a window,—wot ye how?—"
- "Now will I to my Ghostly fathers Cell, / His Help to craue, and my good hap to tell."
- "Therfore I saye, that a general confession only in saying to a Ghostly Father, I am a sinner without specifying the deadly sinnes in particular, is no sufficient knowledge for the Ghostly Father to iudge rightly of euery sinner, that demandeth absolution of him, whose sinnes are to be remitted, and whose sinnes are to be retained."
- "About the latter End of January, 1676, Thomas Thwing, a Priest, and William Rushton, another Popish Priest, who was my ghostly Father, came to my House at Shippon Hall, in Yorkshire […]"
- "The second remedy is frequent confession to a discreet ghostly father."