Meaning of father confessor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
2. A person who listens to others and gives them advice on private matters; a spiritual guide.
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Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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