Exhaustion of the capacity to react with sympathy to another's misfortune owing to one's overexposure to previous misfortunes.

A priest who listens to confessions.

plural of shrift father

(Christian theology) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to the God of Abraham and the Jewish scriptures and considered the creator of mankind and Father of Jesus Christ

Alternative form of father figure

Synonym of Old Man Winter

An ultimately seductive and dangerous man; a womanizer.

Ending by a donor of a prior pattern of donation to a charity or cause.

Alternative spelling of nonfatal.

plural of femme fatale