confessional
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- noun
- /kənˈfɛʃənl/
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confesionario
- Many people feel relieved after sharing their secrets in the confessional.
- in the confessional
There's private theaters in the South where they have confessional booths set up and they have three channels and people go in there and, you know, it's porn.
- There's private theaters in the South where they have confessional booths set up and they have three channels and people go in there and, you know, it's porn.
- So it felt almost more therapeutic confessional.
- If you show this muffin through confessional what his problem is and that he's trying to change.
- If you show this Moffin through confessional what his problem is and that he's trying to change.
- And I think one thing that just as a confessional like I will say, I could really learn the art of detachment.
Examples
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They're sitting outside of the confessional.
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The confessional is still intact.
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Well, you can get out of my confessional right now, so you can.
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You will find everything you need in this confessional when I have left.
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My confessional is open to you all the time.
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I went quickly through the curtains, out of the confessional, out of the church.
Fiction book (1998) -
But I told it in the confessional, so I could still receive the Eucharist.
Fiction book (1998) -
Somebody's coming out of the confessional, maybe dressed as a priest or as a nun.
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Marion steps into the confessional, as William moves to the altar and kneels in prayer.
Fiction book (1995) -
Weekly they confessed to him, pulling the confessional curtain tightly around them.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
A small place in a church where people tell their sins to a priest
How Private
Surface Forms
Morphology
confessional = confession (semi-transparent) = confess + ion + al
The form is built regularly from 'confession' plus '-al', though the noun sense has become specialized for the church booth or room.
Etymology
The word confessional comes from the verb confess, which itself comes from Latin parts con- 'with' and fateri 'to admit'. So a confessional is a private booth where someone goes to 'admit' their sins to a priest.