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Confessor
Confessor Con*fess"or (?; 277), n. [OF. confessor, F. confesseur, fr. L. & LL. confessor.] 1. One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith. He who dies for religion is a martyr; he who suffers for it is a confessor. --Latham. Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood of so many martyrs and confessors. --Bacon. 2. A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.
Confessorship
Confessorship Con*fess"or*ship, n. The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. --J. H. Newman.
father confessor
Father Fa"ther, n. [OE. fader, AS. f[ae]der; akin to OS. fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa?ir Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. ?????, Skr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. p[=a] protect. ???,???. Cf. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, Potential, Pablum.] 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad father. --Prov. x. 1. 2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors. David slept with his fathers. --1 Kings ii. 10. Abraham, who is the father of us all. --Rom. iv. 16. 3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection. I was a father to the poor. --Job xxix. 16. He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house. --Gen. xiv. 8. 4. A respectful mode of address to an old man. And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father! --2 Kings xiii. 14. 5. A senator of ancient Rome. 6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. Bless you, good father friar ! --Shak. 7. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers. 8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher. The father of all such as handle the harp and organ. --Gen. iv. 21. Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. --Shak. The father of good news. --Shak. 9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity. Our Father, which art in heaven. --Matt. vi. 9. Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye. --Milton. Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own. Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, etc. See under Apostolic, Conscript, etc. Father in God, a title given to bishops. Father of lies, the Devil. Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at the bar. Fathers of the city, the aldermen. Father of the Faithful. (a) Abraham. --Rom. iv. --Gal. iii. 6-9. (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors. Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service. Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York. Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child. Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father. Spiritual father. (a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in leading a soul to God. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance. The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope.
Pro confesso
Pro Pro, prep. [L.; akin to prae before, Gr. ?, and E. for. See For, prep., and cf. Prior, a.] A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth. Pro confesso [L.] (Law), taken as confessed. The action of a court of equity on that portion of the pleading in a particular case which the pleading on the other side does not deny. Pro rata. [L. See Prorate.] In proportion; proportion. Pro re nata [L.] (Law), for the existing occasion; as matters are.
sword of Edward the Confessor
Curtana Cur*ta"na (k?r-t?"n?), n. The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

Meaning of Confesso from wikipedia

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- Sampognaro, Franco (4 November 1980). "Ha ritrattato il dodicenne che confessò d'aver ucciso due omosessuali a Catania?". La Stampa (in Italian). p. 9...
- with the song "Io confesso". They officially reunited in 2023, making their official comeback releasing a new version of "Io confesso" in a duet with Carmen...
- kind of examination piece, the recitative and aria K. 294 "Alcandro, lo confesso/Non sò, d'onde viene". As Mozart wrote to his father: When I had it ready...
- (1776) Ah, lo previdi for Soprano in C minor, K. 272 (1777) Alcandro, lo confesso for Soprano in E♭ major, K. 294 (1778) Basta, vincesti for Soprano in E♭...
- Pazzi". Palazzo Medici Riccardi (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-06-09. ""Io confesso di aver voluto uccidere Lorenzo il Magnifico"". la Repubblica (in Italian)...
- Andrade, Tomaz (16 November 2023). "João Mário, a dedicatória e a estreia: "Confesso que não estava à espera"" [João Mário, the dedication and debut: "I confess...
- dei ****". La Repubblica. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2014. "Dalla confessò: non-mi sento omosessuale". La Stampa. 6 March 2012. Retrieved 21 January...
- Foschini (4 May 2019). "Regeni, il nuovo supertestimone: "Un ufficiale mi confessò il sequestro"" [Regeni, new starwitness: “An officer confessed the kidnapping”]...
- 1778 22 Mannheim 294 294 Recitative and Aria for Soprano, "Alcandro, lo confesso" 24 February 1778 22 Mannheim 295 295 Aria for Tenor, "Se al labbro mio...