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Meaning of "confessorship" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFESSORSHIP

kənˈfesəʃɪp


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 · assessorship · co-ownership · copartnership · dealership · directorship · editorship · leadership · mentorship · ownership · partnership · premiership · professorship · proprietorship · readership · receivership · scholarship · sponsorship · survivorship · viewership

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

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Translation of «confessorship» into 25 languages

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исповедничества
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पाप कबूल करतो
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исповедничества
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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
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