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confessant
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confessant [kənˈfɛsənt]
n
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity Chiefly RC Church a person who makes a confession
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5) Foucault's interpretation of confession is nevertheless historically tendentious because it neither attends to pre-Lateran confessional practices nor acknowledges the reality that most medieval and early modern Christians made poor confessants.
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14) These characteristics are borne out in the novel by the factors determining the beatas' choice of confessors, as illustrated by the burping, vulgar, insensitive Father Jose Migueis who loses most of his confessants to his antipode, 'o polido padre Gusmao, tao cheio de labia' (p.
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