confessionist

English

Etymology

Compare French confessioniste.

Noun

confessionist (plural confessionists)

1. One professing a certain faith.
   • 1642, Richard Montagu, Acts and Monuments of the Church:

     […] contrary Confessionists in Christianity

References

• “confessionist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.