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Confessionist|kənˈfɛʃənɪst|
[a. F. confessioniste, and 16th c. L. confessionista.]
1. An adherent of a particular religious confession, spec. of the Augsburg Confession, a Lutheran.
c1568in Fulke Two Treat. (1577) I. 61, I aske of them whether the Lutherans, Zuinglians, Illirians, Caluenistes, Confessionistes, etc...be all of one Church? 1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar Ded. 1, The controversies..between the Protestant and Romish confessionists. 1832S. R. Maitland Facts and Doc. 124 The reformers were taunted with the name of Confessionists. 1849W. Fitzgerald tr. Whitaker's Disput. 380 There is the utmost unanimity amongst the Confessionists (as they call them) in all things necessary, that is, in the articles of faith.
2. = confessionalist 1.
1858Sat. Rev. V. 269/1 The thorough confessionist always overstates his guilt. |