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Charles Buck Dictionary
• Confessor
Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Hosius (1), a Confessor Under Maximian
• Eusebius (96), Presbyter, Confessor at Rome
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• This the Confessor of the Lord, Whose Triumph
• Iste Confessor Domini Collentes
• Eusebius, Saint Confessor
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Webster Dictionary
• Confessor
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Confessor
• Edward the Confessor
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Adalbald, Saint and Confessor
• Caran, Bishop and Confessor
• Cedonius, Saint and Confessor
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Edward the Confessor
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Confessor
• English Confessors and Martyrs (1534-1729)
• Irish Confessors and Martyrs
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(1):

(n.) 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.

(2):

(n.) A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.