Word familynounconfessantconfessionconfessionalconfessionalismconfessionalistconfessorconfessoressconfessorshipadjectiveconfessedconfessionaryadverbconfessedlyverbconfess
RRCa place in a church, usually an enclosed room, where a priest hears people make their confessions 〔教堂里的〕告解室,忏悔室
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confessional• Bohemian late Gothic forms are included in this Baroquefantasy and there are some good 18Cconfessionals.• And no penitent in a confessional could have unburdened herself more pathetically than did my Maman that afternoon.• Why must beds be turned into confessionals.• These include the work on the side altars, the four Evangelists in niches in the nave and the confessionals.• I was shaking and sweating so much in the confessional I thought I was going to faint.• The seal of the confessional is what I work under, at least when it comes to the ladies.• His patronage to confessors is attributed to the large crowds he attracted to the confessionals.• He had even specified the date of his unwitting confessional.