confessional
Adjective
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Adjective
confessional
- In the manner or style of a confession.
- 1991, Manju Jain, A critical reading of the selected poems of T.S. Eliot (page 77)
- The studied reticence of the poems in quatrains is opposed to the more confessional aspects of the monologue.
- 1991, Manju Jain, A critical reading of the selected poems of T.S. Eliot (page 77)
- Officially practicing a particular religion, as a state or organization. See confessionalism 1.
confessional (plural confessionals)
- (Roman Catholic church) A small room where confession—the sacrament of reconciliation—is performed by a priest.
- Synonyms: confession booth
- ca. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter XI:
- The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.
- A confession.
- French: confessionnal
- German: Beichtstuhl
- Portuguese: confessionário
- Russian: исповеда́льня
- Spanish: confesionario
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