[see -SHIP.] The function or office of a confessor.
1655. Fuller, Hist. Univ. Cambr., 130. Mr. Fox … appoints the 23. of December for Bucer his Confessourship.
1683. Cave, Ecclesiastici, 55. His … eminent Confessorship in the times of Persecution.
1876. Stubbs, Early Plantag., iv. 65. A morbid craving after the honours of martyrdom, or confessorship at the least.
