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Meaning of "confessorship" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFESSORSHIP

confessorship  [kənˈfesəʃɪp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFESSORSHIP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Confessorship is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONFESSORSHIP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of confessorship in the English dictionary

The definition of confessorship in the dictionary is the office of a confessor, or the function of a confessor. Other definition of confessorship is the act or state of bearing witness to your Christian faith by the holiness of your life, especially in resisting threats or danger.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONFESSORSHIP


anticensorship
ˌæntɪˈsɛnsəʃɪp
assessorship
əˈsesəʃɪp
co-ownership
ˌkəʊˈəʊnəʃɪp
copartnership
kəʊˈpɑːtnəʃɪp
dealership
ˈdiːləʃɪp
directorship
dɪˈrektəʃɪp
editorship
ˈɛdɪtəʃɪp
leadership
ˈliːdəʃɪp
mentorship
ˈmɛntəʃɪp
ownership
ˈəʊnəʃɪp
partnership
ˈpɑːtnəʃɪp
premiership
ˈprɛmjəʃɪp
professorship
prəˈfɛsəʃɪp
proprietorship
prəˈpraɪətəʃɪp
readership
ˈriːdəʃɪp
receivership
rɪˈsiːvəʃɪp
scholarship
ˈskɒləʃɪp
sponsorship
ˈspɒnsəʃɪp
survivorship
səˈvaɪvəʃɪp
viewership
ˈvjuːəʃɪp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFESSORSHIP

conferval
confervoid
confess
confessable
confessant
confessedly
confession
confession of faith
confessional
confessional television
confessionalism
confessionalist
confessionally
confessionary
confessor
confessoress
confest
confestly
confetti
confetto

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFESSORSHIP

airship
authorship
censorship
controllership
dictatorship
entrepreneurship
governorship
home ownership
joint ownership
life membership
limited partnership
membership
place of worship
relationship
rulership
self-censorship
share ownership
shared ownership
starship
warship
worship

Synonyms and antonyms of confessorship in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «confessorship» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONFESSORSHIP

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The translations of confessorship from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confessorship» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

confessorship
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

confessorship
570 millions of speakers

English

confessorship
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

confessorship
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

confessorship
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

исповедничества
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

confessorship
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

confessorship
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

confessorship
220 millions of speakers

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Pengakuan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

confessorship
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

confessorship
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

confessorship
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Confessorship
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

confessorship
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

confessorship
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाप कबूल करतो
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

confessorship
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

confessorship
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

confessorship
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

исповедничества
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

confessorship
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

confessorship
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

confessorship
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

confessorship
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

confessorship
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of confessorship

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFESSORSHIP»

The term «confessorship» is used very little and occupies the 168.245 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFESSORSHIP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «confessorship» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «confessorship» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about confessorship

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFESSORSHIP»

Discover the use of confessorship in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confessorship and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Critica Et Philologica, Nachleben, First Two Centuries, ...
2.2.2 Confessorship in Constitutiones Apostolicae VIII, 23 (= Epitome 14). With the exception of this passage, and its parallel in the so-called Epitome, all other versions of TA 9 support the original concept of ordination per confessionem.
Maurice F. Wiles, Edward Yarnold, 2001
2
A Church History of the First Three Centuries: From the ...
incumbent on pastors and leaders to set an example of a new kind of confessorship,—the confessorship, namely, of a prudent circumspection: a thing vastly more difiicult in stirring times than any other form of faith and courage. The first ...
Milo Mahan, 1860
3
The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ...
... altered and added to by so many hands, they yet throughout present one idea of Christianity, as a sacramental and sacerdotal system. Confessorship, indeed, was thought in some place to supply the want of ordination. Still this very view, ...
4
Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath ...
We are apt to think of martyrdom as of no very diflicult thing; and perhaps it was easier than some kinds of confessorship in the present day: but we must remember that we do not realize the whole of martyrdom. We can realize its supports, but ...
Harriet Martineau, 1836
5
Hilary of Poitiers' Preface to His Opus Historicum: ...
... reddo was not specific for martyrdom, and the object so witnessed to had hardly, if ever, been an apostolic dictum,168 a comparison with Hilary's Commentary on Matthew shows that here he must have martyrdom and confessorship in mind.
Saint Hilary (Bishop of Poitiers), 1995
6
ANF08. The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The ...
“of confessorship.”—Tr. 3198 Lit. “of confessorship.”—Tr. 3199 The Latin “velum,” or rather its plur. “vela.” 3200 The Gk. ἀπόφασις. 3201 This expression χαλινὸν ἐμβαλεῖν is used similarly in the life of Euthymus in Eccl. Græc. Monumenta, ...
Philip Schaff
7
The Beloved Disciple
A long and hard confessorship may sometimes be equal to a short martyrdom, and such a confessorship was that ofStJohn. Out ofhis long life let me select three instances. First, there was his suffering with our Lord on that last terrible night.
Rev. H. A. Rawes
8
Cyprian and Roman Carthage
It is to ordination as Reader that Cyprian has decided that confessorship has admitted him! Celerinus wasordained Reader together withAurelius in Cyprian' shide- away. Aurelius was a Carthaginian rather than Roman confessor, on whose ...
Allen Brent, 2010
9
The Journal of ecclesiastical history
Certainly there is archaeological evidence for initially bracketing together Fabian and Cornelius and not including either within the stricter definition of confessorship in the church order literature. In the so-called tomb of the popes in the ...
10
Letters and Diaries: Opposition in Dublin and London, Oct. ...
He considered then that the ordinary confession of nuns was an infringement of the Rule — though extraordinary confessorship was not. He said that, by the Council of Trent, nuns had an extraordinary confessor 3 times a year or so — but it ...
John Henry Newman, Charles Stephen Dessain, Ian Turnbull Ker, 1961

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Confessorship [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/confessorship>. May 2024 ».
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