confessorshipn.
The function or office of a confessor.
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confessorship1655
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Cambr. Univ. 130 Mr. Fox..appoints the 23. of December for Bucer his Confessourship.
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 55 His..eminent Confessorship in the times of Persecution.
1876 W. Stubbs Early Plantagenets iv. 65 A morbid craving after the honours of martyrdom, or confessorship at the least.
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