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Confession Receivers Crossword Clue

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noun

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

verb

• make (offspring) by reproduction

21%7Confession of error
noun

• an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone

• a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly

• a poor example

21%9 Purification through confession
noun

• (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions

• purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels

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