Word Meanings - CONFESSORSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• SUFFERABLE
  1. Able to suffer or endure; patient. "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer. 2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. -- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Suf"fer*a*bly, adv.
• STATESWOMAN
  A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
• STATESMANLY
  Becoming a statesman.
• STATESMAN
  1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
• STATEDLY
  At stated times; regularly.
• SUFFERING
  The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs. "Souls in sufferings tried." Keble.
• FAITHED
  Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. "Make thy words faithed." Shak.
• STATELESS
  Without state or pomp.
• CONTENDER
  One who contends; a contestant.
• STATEMONGER
  One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
• STATED
  1. Settled; established; fixed. He is capable of corruption who receives more than what is the stated and unquestionable fee of his office. Addison. 2. Recurring at regular time; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours.
• STATEFUL
  Full of state; stately. "A stateful silence." Marston.
• RELIGIOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. Our law forbids
• STATER
  One who states.
• PERSECUTION
  1. The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship. Persecution produces no sincere conviction. Paley. 2. The state or condition of being persecuted.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• BICOSTATE
  Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
• TRIPLICOSTATE
  Three-ribbed.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• DEVASTATE
  To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.
• UNFAITH
  Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson.
• APOSTATE
  One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a
• CREOLE STATE
  Louisiana; -- a nickname. See Creole, n. & a.
• METATUNGSTATE
  A salt of metatungstic acid.