[
US
/kənˈfɛʃənəɫ/
]
[ UK /kənfˈɛʃənəl/ ]
[ UK /kənfˈɛʃənəl/ ]
NOUN
- a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
How To Use confessional In A Sentence
- The supporting stories have a much sharper bite, including a return to his painfully confessional autobiographical style.
- One senses they'd rather have a confessional book.
- Religion, especially confessional Christianity, has always concerned itself with authority and certainty.
- The confessional language is stunning in its clarity: ‘I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.’
- The convictions rest solely on disputed witness and confessional statements.
- All I know about the operation so far is what I heard when we were monitoring your conversation with Ryan in the confessional. CODE BREAKER
- The friars and their native assistants produced an immense number of grammars, dictionaries, catechisms, confessional manuals, sermon outlines, chronicles, and even religious dramas.
- 6 'CONFESSIONAL OP VALOMBRB* the wind midst the poisonous intertex - tpre of fumatory and night-shade. The confessional of Valombre
- Christian doctrine identifies the rules by which Christians use confessional language to define the social world that they indwell.
- He rejected confessional Christianity and allowed religious toleration in his kingdom.