Dictionary

father confessor en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
2. (broadly) A person who listens to others and gives them advice on private matters; a spiritual guide.
   • Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to be a proper physician in the fullest sense of the word. 1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:

Forms

Coordinates

father figure

Synonyms

confessor

Translations (5)

pl powiernik (person who listens to others and gives them advice on private matters; spiritual guide) · fr conseiller spirituel (person who listens to others and gives them advice on private matters; spiritual guide) · fr guide spirituel (person who listens to others and gives them advice on private matters; spiritual guide) · fi henkinen opas (person who listens to others and gives them advice on private matters; spiritual guide) · fr directeur de conscience (person who listens to others and gives them advice on private matters; spiritual guide)