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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% | 7 | Confession 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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