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A booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
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confessional
Word definitions for confessional in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 In the manner or style of a confession. 2 Officially practicing a particular religion, as a state or organization. See confessionalism. Etymology 2 n. 1 (context Roman Catholic church English) A small room where confession—the sacrament ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And no penitent in a confessional could have unburdened herself more pathetically than did my Maman that afternoon. ▪ Bohemian late Gothic forms are included in this Baroque fantasy and there are some good 18C confessionals. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A confessional is a small, enclosed booth used for confession. Confessional may also refer to: Reality TV confessional , common interview practice in reality television The Confessional , a French movie from 1994 Confessional (film) , a 2007 Cebuano mockumentary ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to confession," mid-15c., from Medieval Latin confessionalis (see confessional (n.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confessional \Con*fes"sion*al\, a. Pertaining to a confession of faith. Confessional equality , equality before the law of persons confessing different creeds.
Usage examples of confessional.
I challenged him to explain his reasons for refusing to give her absolution, but he closed my lips by answering very coolly that he could not betray the secrets of the confessional.
As he did not wish their last interview to be troubled by the influence of their ruined confessional they meet in a little cakeshop near the Parkgate.
Oh, oh, I suppose the Episcopalians have the custom of the confessional too, crypto-Romans that they are, but they always tell lies to their priests.
Just before this self-pitying chatterbox had squeezed her bulk into the confessional, he had peeked out and discovered that she was the last of the penitents.
A new implement stood voluted beside the genuine Renaissance writing desk supporting Weininger's always open standard work: the tailor's horse, the tailor's organ, the tailor's confessional: a Singer sewing machine.
And back again at the indestructible confessional after two lonely echoing rounds, he snaps open his good old lighter with a view to lighting a comforting pipe.
Inge's nose blood is red, and third it lights up a little card pinned to the confessional, and on the card something is written: a name in black and white: Joseph Knopf.
Knopf inhabits the indestructible confessional, making his certified ear available to each and all.
When the knitting needle, retail price ten pfennigs, is put in motion, when the instrument of vengeance rests on the ornate grille of the confessional and is aimed knittingneedle-sharp at the priest's ear, nothing quivers in alarm for the eardrum.
When Keir floated away from holding confessional with Pipistrella, Chuck caught hold of the angel's sleeve, which immediately roughened to gray homespun.
When he came back to his seat and the conversation, the moment of the confessional was over.
The ritual of the confessional is certainly something he comprehends: it is encoded in his very genes, it is imprinted in his bones and balls, it is utterly natural to him.
A variation in our daily routine was about to be introduced, yes, but it involved neither Frater Javier nor any confessional aspects.
We were not supposed to tell him or anyone else about the things that we would learn from one another in these confessional sessions.
And these few confessional days seemed to have thrust him into the uttermost abyss.