American English pronunciation

How to pronounce confessional

IPA transcription: [kən'fɛʃənəl]

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Noun

  • a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions

Usage examples

  • In Lutheran churches it can be liberal Protestant, pietist, confessional Lutheran, or evangelical Catholic.
  • And of that handful, she has stayed the closest to the personal confessional mode.
  • The confessional parties also lost their majority.
  • Trained wood restorers polished and improved the pews and confessionals.
  • There is little debate over whether confessional Protestants use forms.
  • This had the consequence of creating distinctive confessional identities.
  • In Austria, the organization withdrew its application to register as a "religious confessional community".
  • Henceforward, Brandenburg-Prussia would be a bi-confessional state.
  • But more usually, confessionals are movable pieces of furniture.
  • He came under attack by the rationalist pastors for his confessional and orthodox stand.