American English pronunciation
How to pronounce confessional
IPA transcription: [kən'fɛʃənəl]
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Noun
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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.