confessorship

Two or three of these dungeons, for they are nothing better, still remain; and a brief description of the one which we have mentioned will give our readers some idea of what confessorship cost, independent of martyrdom.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

… He [Praxeas] was the first to import into Rome this sort of perversity, a man of restless disposition in other respects, and above all inflated with the pride of martyrdom [confessorship] simply and solely because of a short annoyance in prison; when, even if he had given his body to be burned, it would have profited him nothing, not having the love of God, whose very gifts he resisted and destroyed.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

But the confessorship of neither had any perceptible share in promoting the final victory of truth.

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

Constantinople, but, in the second Iconoclastic persecution, he seems to have felt no vocation for confessorship, and went to Rome.

Hymns of the Eastern Church 1818-1866 1866

We meet everywhere so much kindness now, that we can make no pretence to confessorship. '

Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Robert Ornsby 1854

Let us go with them to the home of his youth, where his confessorship began in childish sufferings for the sake of Christ.

The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others Georgiana Fullerton 1848

They neither wish to shock people, nor to earn for themselves a confessorship which brings with it no gain.

The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845

On the whole, then, I see nothing very strange either in orthodoxy lying in what at first sight appears like subtle and minute exactness of doctrine, or in its being our duty to contend even to confessorship for such exactness.

Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845

Now I make bold to say, that confessorship for the

Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845

I say “in a country like this;” for, if there be any country which deserves that Science should not run wild, like a planet broken loose from its celestial system, it is a country which can boast of such hereditary faith, of such a persevering confessorship, of such an accumulation of good works, of such a glorious name, as Ireland.

The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845