Meaning of ghostly father | Babel Free

Definitions

confessor (priest who hears one’s confessions)

obsolete

Examples

“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.”

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