Definition of confessional in English:

confessional

noun kənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l

1An enclosed stall in a church divided by a screen or curtain in which a priest sits to hear confessions.
（神父聆听忏悔的）忏悔室，告解所
the secrets of the confessional
Example sentencesExamples
- Such people appear to have no conception of why the Church has confessionals or the Seal.
- The play then shifts to a church confessional where the geek is talking about the sniffing incident, about how it was a sinful display but arousing nonetheless.
- And there were a good many other sequences planned for the picture which are not there, including her visit to a confessional in the Catholic church - without words, nothing was ever said.
- And it is true that a priest has a rebuttable presumption against revealing in court what he has heard in the confessional.
- After a brief opening prayer, parents line up with their children, presenting them to one of the waiting priests, seated not inside confessionals but on chairs scattered throughout the church.
- Canada, said the news agency, was advancing a plan that would deny clergy the right to refuse testimony on anything they heard in the confessional.
- The answer is one that feminists do not like to hear - namely, that the priest is an icon of Christ and acts in persona Christi at the altar and in the confessional.
- Old-fashioned confessionals having been tossed out long ago, the rule is that ‘reconciliation rooms’ must have a clear window with somebody posted outside to keep an eye on things.
- This latter, partly the result of the rise of therapy and the women's movement, naturally means that fewer people feel the pressure to tell which swelled nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century confessionals.
- From the altar area worshipers may access the ambulatory as it extends along the north side of the structure, where the confessionals are located.
- They're right beside churches with drive-through confessionals.
- Not a very large structure, the church was more of a chapel - bearing only five rows of pews, a small confessional, and an altar below a crucifix.
- Repenting sinners may find relief in an item being auctioned on the Internet by a Vienna church - a cherry-wood confessional.
- I'm going to have to spend a year in the confessional at church after all this is over.
- The priest will then assign a ‘penance’, which usually consists of a few prayers to say in the church after leaving the confessional.
- Among American Catholics, the collapse of church discipline is symbolized by empty confessionals and more than $1 billion in settlements for clergy sexual abuses.
- In some dioceses, priests were expected to preach on the subject at least once a year, and it was not unusual for priests to raise the issue of contraception in the confessional.
- ‘I came here for meaning,’ Gavin says to the priest in the confessional.
- Consequently, the screenplay has him paying frequent visits to a confessional.
- His film springs from a US culture steeped in acts of catharsis, where the therapist's couch has usurped the church confessional, and in its turn it has been eclipsed by the public exorcisms of the chat show.
2An acknowledgement that one has done something shameful or embarrassing; a confession.
认错；坦白；承认；忏悔
tabloid confessionals
Example sentencesExamples
- This sophomore effort features 10 romantic confessionals composed mostly on acoustic guitar and piano.
- His lyrics read like tabloid confessionals, offering glimpses into a celebrity's life.
- Yes, there is the standard tawdry bedroom balderdash that sells most tell-all cinematic confessionals.
- Hearing these confessionals was a thrill akin to skimming Lady Macbeth's diary or getting drunk with Machiavelli.
- It's a little disconcerting hearing the wide-eyed troubadour so distraught, but if it's any consolation, the emotional intensity of his folksy confessionals and heartfelt power-pop nuggets have been jacked up considerably.
- My stateside imagination ran more cheaply toward TV reality programs and talk-show confessionals.
- But I would suspect that this is one of those first person confessionals secretly disguised as a generalization-laden argument.
- While such toe-curling confessionals may grate with some, they nonetheless fill its forty-five minutes with a world-weary warmth and idealism to match the boundary-breaking beats.
- It seals its fate with private camera confessionals, team challenges, and the mandatory hot tub (why must there always be a hot tub?).
- In these days of tabloid confessionals and celebrity magazines, the sound of rock stars complaining about their lot has become a familiar one.
- The subject matter is still that of broken relationships but, whereas before the sense was of an unremitting resignation, now a lighter note leavens the confessionals.
- It is largely due to her polished prose that the books rise above the level of confessionals.
- ‘I want to hear a love confessional,’ he said before realizing he was saying it.
- The books, like their women's-mag forerunners, are a string of outrageous confessionals from women in the grips of dating crises.
- This is her most personal record, both in that she's had more to do with the music than ever before, and also that it continues with her apparent desire to write songs as confessionals.
- If I wanted to hear confessionals about someone's sad youth, I'd go read some freshman poetry, or read any of the innumerable sob story memoirs that populate bookshelves and which we all pretty much agreed suck, I think.
- He stopped embracing jealousy not wanting to hear a maudlin confessional in the hallway outside the lavatories.
- In this time of tell-all public confessionals, I'm coming clean about my own coming-of-age, as it were.
- On-camera confessionals narrate already obvious conflicts with either eye-rolling sarcasm or lip-quivering sincerity.
- What he rejected was the part designed for him by American commerce, a chance to be part of the traffic in ethnic confessionals, a part in the drama of a show trial of the sixties; he did not reject the forms of fiction themselves.

adjective kənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l

1(of speech or writing) in which a person reveals private thoughts or admits to past incidents, especially ones about which they feel ashamed or embarrassed.
（尤指演讲、文章）自白（性）的
the autobiography is remarkably confessional
自传作了惊人的忏悔。
his confessional outpourings
他倾泻而出的忏悔。
Example sentencesExamples
- I have used the confessional voice in both poetry and prose myself, not because I couldn't contain my urge to express myself, but because I thought that it might well be the best technique for a certain piece.
- Matters get decidedly steamy and a tad too confessional, though the lyrical twists reveal depth and vulnerability alongside the braggadocio.
- ‘The tradition of secrecy that exists there is conducive to the confessional aspect of singing and writing songs,’ he says.
- However, in a drunk, confessional moment, she reveals her desire to ‘know why my grandparents were kicked off that island’.
- Jason coincidentally put up a post about pre-web writings on the same day I stumbled upon a confessional diary of my teenage years.
- In a series of confessional encounters with his Dublin therapist, Ian, he reveals the hoarded guilt that rationally explains an irrational phenomenon.
- By confusing the public and the private, today's confessional culture undermines the idea of the ‘public interest’.
- It edges you away from the tendency towards melodrama that you occasionally get in confessional verse.
- This is not necessarily a criticism: refusing to provide much context for their narratives, these songs are guardedly confessional, eager to elicit emotions but hesitant to reveal too much.
- While I'm in a confessional mood, I might as well admit that the technique of salting hashes for increased security in storing passwords had passed me by until recently, too.
- OK I was just responded to by someone who listened to my stuff, cutting my confessional train of thought off.
- With jangly guitars, electronic touches, melancholic melodies, and confessional lyrics, this album is a must have for any indie-pop enthusiast.
- The project (not so much a blog, don't worry) is an ongoing compilation of anonymous, mailed-in confessional postcards prettied up with thematic drawings or collages.
- In fact, both are closer to the warts-and-all confessional psychodramas of reality TV.
- Instead it was a solid, sensible, stately speech, at times confessional, highly personal.
- And the evidence of that confession, or confessional statement, was admitted without objection?
- The reaction to our contemporary confessional culture has altered the meaning of free speech and privacy.
- Like its multi-platinum predecessor, it's full of yearning tunes and poignant, confessional lyrics that foster an intense and highly personal sense of identification between the band and its fans.
- One senses they'd rather have a confessional book.
- Anyhow, it's not a surprise that so many of the examples of this kind are in confessional writing about relationship problems.
1. 1.1 Relating to religious confession.
  （与）忏悔（有关）的，（与）告解（有关）的
  the priest leaned forward in his best confessional manner
  神父以他最完美的听取忏悔的态度倾身向前。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Usually once the ‘penitent’, that is, the person going to confession, closes the confessional door, he or she kneels down on a kneeler, or in the case of someone who is elderly or has another reason for doing so, he or she sits down.
  Did he mean he would violate the confessional seal?
  With great scholarly skill, he shows how centuries-old Orthodox religious philosophy and rituals resembled the penitent, confessional modes employed in the Soviet era.
  They spoke in a confessional whisper.
  The confessional language is stunning in its clarity: ‘I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.’
  Perhaps she might even blurt it out in a confessional whisper.
  A severe looking priest up front was speaking very softly, only slightly louder than a confessional whisper.
  However, I would no longer go in a confessional booth and say sorry to some superior being for my mistakes, instead, I learn from them, I could never be sorry for my life experiences.
  But I did not know until later that our Baptist forefathers had found that wonderful document to be a helpful guide in formulating our early confessional statements.
  I cried, the shock hurling my voice aloud, out of the confessional whisper.
  Church leaders should not use the protection they enjoy from being forced to reveal the confessional conversations they have with parishioners to shield priests accused of child abuse.
  It becomes an open diary or confessional booth, where inward thoughts are publicly aired.
2Relating to confessions of faith or doctrinal systems.
（与）宗教信仰声明（有关）的；（与）信条（或信仰）（有关）的
the confessional approach to religious education
信仰声明式的宗教教育方法。
Example sentencesExamples
- Every denomination has its theological articles and books of theology, its liturgies and confessional statements.
- He rejected confessional Christianity and allowed religious toleration in his kingdom.
- Institutionally, the field is not best described in the ways better suited to a previous period, using the categories of confessional theology and neutral religious studies.
- Christian doctrine identifies the rules by which Christians use confessional language to define the social world that they indwell.
- It is not a confessional religious statement about the nature of God; rather, only the view of the writer/community is presented.
- He was an unashamed confessional Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism.
- In the field of confessional theology there have been developments that allow greater receptivity to new ideas.
- Religion, especially confessional Christianity, has always concerned itself with authority and certainty.
- When theological professors and pastors abandon the biblical and confessional doctrine of justification, they sacrifice the gospel and the souls of men.
- The role of confessional statements in the search for unity and the effect of participation in the Eucharist to establish the fellowship of believers with each other and Jesus Christ are seen as forging an inner link.
- In the minds of the Enlightenment thinkers, confessional religion, unless checked by law or by free competition, led inevitably to tyranny and persecution.
- The decree on revelation, moreover, underscored the mystery of our encounter with the divine and hence the inadequacy of all our confessional statements about it.
- They started with an a priori assumption that their particular confessional stance descended from the original expression of the Christian faith in the first century.
- With regard to Baptists becoming teachers in public schools and confessional religious instruction, the situation in Finland has been much the same as in the other Nordic countries.
- God is not revealed in words and confessional statements, but as presence.
- Perhaps the textual orientation of cyberspace will reinvigorate the literate modes of Calvinism and other confessional groups.
- Curiously, his weakest section is the book's centerpiece chapter on the phenomenon of confessional Protestantism.
- American confessional Protestantism lacks the strength, influence, and productivity to carry this much weight, and it has been so lacking for a long time.

Derivatives

confessionally

adverb

Poverty and social degradation breed discontent in certain population groups especially in the ethnically and confessionally patchy states.
Example sentencesExamples
- The shift to resistance theory was confessionally driven and was a ‘British’ and French Huguenot development.
- I am not writing therapeutically or confessionally.
- The failure to implement policies intended to undermine confessionally based political power have curtailed that hope.
- Luther's theology of two kingdoms (law for one, gospel for the other) creates a dilemma for those theologically and confessionally orthodox Lutherans who wish to oppose women's ordination.

Origin

Late Middle English (as an adjective): the adjective from confession + -al; the noun via French from Italian confessionale, from medieval Latin, neuter of confessionalis, from Latin confessio(n-), from confiteri 'acknowledge' (see confess).

Rhymes

congressional, expressional, impressional, obsessional, processional, professional, progressional, recessional, secessional, sessional, successional

Definition of confessional in US English:

confessional

nounkənˈfeSH(ə)n(ə)lkənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l

1An enclosed stall in a church divided by a screen or curtain in which a priest sits to hear people confess their sins.
（神父聆听忏悔的）忏悔室，告解所
Example sentencesExamples
- Not a very large structure, the church was more of a chapel - bearing only five rows of pews, a small confessional, and an altar below a crucifix.
- Such people appear to have no conception of why the Church has confessionals or the Seal.
- This latter, partly the result of the rise of therapy and the women's movement, naturally means that fewer people feel the pressure to tell which swelled nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century confessionals.
- Canada, said the news agency, was advancing a plan that would deny clergy the right to refuse testimony on anything they heard in the confessional.
- And there were a good many other sequences planned for the picture which are not there, including her visit to a confessional in the Catholic church - without words, nothing was ever said.
- His film springs from a US culture steeped in acts of catharsis, where the therapist's couch has usurped the church confessional, and in its turn it has been eclipsed by the public exorcisms of the chat show.
- The priest will then assign a ‘penance’, which usually consists of a few prayers to say in the church after leaving the confessional.
- Consequently, the screenplay has him paying frequent visits to a confessional.
- Old-fashioned confessionals having been tossed out long ago, the rule is that ‘reconciliation rooms’ must have a clear window with somebody posted outside to keep an eye on things.
- After a brief opening prayer, parents line up with their children, presenting them to one of the waiting priests, seated not inside confessionals but on chairs scattered throughout the church.
- They're right beside churches with drive-through confessionals.
- In some dioceses, priests were expected to preach on the subject at least once a year, and it was not unusual for priests to raise the issue of contraception in the confessional.
- The play then shifts to a church confessional where the geek is talking about the sniffing incident, about how it was a sinful display but arousing nonetheless.
- Repenting sinners may find relief in an item being auctioned on the Internet by a Vienna church - a cherry-wood confessional.
- I'm going to have to spend a year in the confessional at church after all this is over.
- ‘I came here for meaning,’ Gavin says to the priest in the confessional.
- From the altar area worshipers may access the ambulatory as it extends along the north side of the structure, where the confessionals are located.
- Among American Catholics, the collapse of church discipline is symbolized by empty confessionals and more than $1 billion in settlements for clergy sexual abuses.
- The answer is one that feminists do not like to hear - namely, that the priest is an icon of Christ and acts in persona Christi at the altar and in the confessional.
- And it is true that a priest has a rebuttable presumption against revealing in court what he has heard in the confessional.
2An admission or acknowledgment that one has done something that one is ashamed or embarrassed about; a confession.
认错；坦白；承认；忏悔
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘I want to hear a love confessional,’ he said before realizing he was saying it.
- He stopped embracing jealousy not wanting to hear a maudlin confessional in the hallway outside the lavatories.
- While such toe-curling confessionals may grate with some, they nonetheless fill its forty-five minutes with a world-weary warmth and idealism to match the boundary-breaking beats.
- This is her most personal record, both in that she's had more to do with the music than ever before, and also that it continues with her apparent desire to write songs as confessionals.
- On-camera confessionals narrate already obvious conflicts with either eye-rolling sarcasm or lip-quivering sincerity.
- It is largely due to her polished prose that the books rise above the level of confessionals.
- My stateside imagination ran more cheaply toward TV reality programs and talk-show confessionals.
- In these days of tabloid confessionals and celebrity magazines, the sound of rock stars complaining about their lot has become a familiar one.
- If I wanted to hear confessionals about someone's sad youth, I'd go read some freshman poetry, or read any of the innumerable sob story memoirs that populate bookshelves and which we all pretty much agreed suck, I think.
- What he rejected was the part designed for him by American commerce, a chance to be part of the traffic in ethnic confessionals, a part in the drama of a show trial of the sixties; he did not reject the forms of fiction themselves.
- His lyrics read like tabloid confessionals, offering glimpses into a celebrity's life.
- It's a little disconcerting hearing the wide-eyed troubadour so distraught, but if it's any consolation, the emotional intensity of his folksy confessionals and heartfelt power-pop nuggets have been jacked up considerably.
- This sophomore effort features 10 romantic confessionals composed mostly on acoustic guitar and piano.
- The subject matter is still that of broken relationships but, whereas before the sense was of an unremitting resignation, now a lighter note leavens the confessionals.
- The books, like their women's-mag forerunners, are a string of outrageous confessionals from women in the grips of dating crises.
- But I would suspect that this is one of those first person confessionals secretly disguised as a generalization-laden argument.
- Yes, there is the standard tawdry bedroom balderdash that sells most tell-all cinematic confessionals.
- Hearing these confessionals was a thrill akin to skimming Lady Macbeth's diary or getting drunk with Machiavelli.
- In this time of tell-all public confessionals, I'm coming clean about my own coming-of-age, as it were.
- It seals its fate with private camera confessionals, team challenges, and the mandatory hot tub (why must there always be a hot tub?).

adjectivekənˈfeSH(ə)n(ə)lkənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l

1(especially of speech or writing) in which a person reveals or admits to private thoughts or past incidents, especially ones that cause shame or embarrassment.
（尤指演讲、文章）自白（性）的
the autobiography is remarkably confessional
自传作了惊人的忏悔。
his confessional outpourings
他倾泻而出的忏悔。
Example sentencesExamples
- I have used the confessional voice in both poetry and prose myself, not because I couldn't contain my urge to express myself, but because I thought that it might well be the best technique for a certain piece.
- ‘The tradition of secrecy that exists there is conducive to the confessional aspect of singing and writing songs,’ he says.
- In fact, both are closer to the warts-and-all confessional psychodramas of reality TV.
- It edges you away from the tendency towards melodrama that you occasionally get in confessional verse.
- However, in a drunk, confessional moment, she reveals her desire to ‘know why my grandparents were kicked off that island’.
- OK I was just responded to by someone who listened to my stuff, cutting my confessional train of thought off.
- Matters get decidedly steamy and a tad too confessional, though the lyrical twists reveal depth and vulnerability alongside the braggadocio.
- With jangly guitars, electronic touches, melancholic melodies, and confessional lyrics, this album is a must have for any indie-pop enthusiast.
- Anyhow, it's not a surprise that so many of the examples of this kind are in confessional writing about relationship problems.
- Like its multi-platinum predecessor, it's full of yearning tunes and poignant, confessional lyrics that foster an intense and highly personal sense of identification between the band and its fans.
- Instead it was a solid, sensible, stately speech, at times confessional, highly personal.
- In a series of confessional encounters with his Dublin therapist, Ian, he reveals the hoarded guilt that rationally explains an irrational phenomenon.
- By confusing the public and the private, today's confessional culture undermines the idea of the ‘public interest’.
- This is not necessarily a criticism: refusing to provide much context for their narratives, these songs are guardedly confessional, eager to elicit emotions but hesitant to reveal too much.
- The project (not so much a blog, don't worry) is an ongoing compilation of anonymous, mailed-in confessional postcards prettied up with thematic drawings or collages.
- And the evidence of that confession, or confessional statement, was admitted without objection?
- While I'm in a confessional mood, I might as well admit that the technique of salting hashes for increased security in storing passwords had passed me by until recently, too.
- One senses they'd rather have a confessional book.
- Jason coincidentally put up a post about pre-web writings on the same day I stumbled upon a confessional diary of my teenage years.
- The reaction to our contemporary confessional culture has altered the meaning of free speech and privacy.
1. 1.1 Relating to religious confession.
  （与）忏悔（有关）的，（与）告解（有关）的
  the priest leaned forward in his best confessional manner
  神父以他最完美的听取忏悔的态度倾身向前。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I cried, the shock hurling my voice aloud, out of the confessional whisper.
  Perhaps she might even blurt it out in a confessional whisper.
  Did he mean he would violate the confessional seal?
  Usually once the ‘penitent’, that is, the person going to confession, closes the confessional door, he or she kneels down on a kneeler, or in the case of someone who is elderly or has another reason for doing so, he or she sits down.
  The confessional language is stunning in its clarity: ‘I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.’
  It becomes an open diary or confessional booth, where inward thoughts are publicly aired.
  A severe looking priest up front was speaking very softly, only slightly louder than a confessional whisper.
  Church leaders should not use the protection they enjoy from being forced to reveal the confessional conversations they have with parishioners to shield priests accused of child abuse.
  However, I would no longer go in a confessional booth and say sorry to some superior being for my mistakes, instead, I learn from them, I could never be sorry for my life experiences.
  But I did not know until later that our Baptist forefathers had found that wonderful document to be a helpful guide in formulating our early confessional statements.
  With great scholarly skill, he shows how centuries-old Orthodox religious philosophy and rituals resembled the penitent, confessional modes employed in the Soviet era.
  They spoke in a confessional whisper.
2Relating to confessions of faith or doctrinal systems.
（与）宗教信仰声明（有关）的；（与）信条（或信仰）（有关）的
the confessional approach to religious education
信仰声明式的宗教教育方法。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is not a confessional religious statement about the nature of God; rather, only the view of the writer/community is presented.
- Curiously, his weakest section is the book's centerpiece chapter on the phenomenon of confessional Protestantism.
- The decree on revelation, moreover, underscored the mystery of our encounter with the divine and hence the inadequacy of all our confessional statements about it.
- Religion, especially confessional Christianity, has always concerned itself with authority and certainty.
- When theological professors and pastors abandon the biblical and confessional doctrine of justification, they sacrifice the gospel and the souls of men.
- They started with an a priori assumption that their particular confessional stance descended from the original expression of the Christian faith in the first century.
- He rejected confessional Christianity and allowed religious toleration in his kingdom.
- In the field of confessional theology there have been developments that allow greater receptivity to new ideas.
- American confessional Protestantism lacks the strength, influence, and productivity to carry this much weight, and it has been so lacking for a long time.
- The role of confessional statements in the search for unity and the effect of participation in the Eucharist to establish the fellowship of believers with each other and Jesus Christ are seen as forging an inner link.
- Christian doctrine identifies the rules by which Christians use confessional language to define the social world that they indwell.
- Every denomination has its theological articles and books of theology, its liturgies and confessional statements.
- Perhaps the textual orientation of cyberspace will reinvigorate the literate modes of Calvinism and other confessional groups.
- With regard to Baptists becoming teachers in public schools and confessional religious instruction, the situation in Finland has been much the same as in the other Nordic countries.
- In the minds of the Enlightenment thinkers, confessional religion, unless checked by law or by free competition, led inevitably to tyranny and persecution.
- Institutionally, the field is not best described in the ways better suited to a previous period, using the categories of confessional theology and neutral religious studies.
- God is not revealed in words and confessional statements, but as presence.
- He was an unashamed confessional Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism.

Origin

Late Middle English (as an adjective): the adjective from confession + -al; the noun via French from Italian confessionale, from medieval Latin, neuter of confessionalis, from Latin confessio(n-), from confiteri ‘acknowledge’ (see confess).

词汇	confessional
释义	Definition of confessional in English: confessional noun kənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l 1An enclosed stall in a church divided by a screen or curtain in which a priest sits to hear confessions. （神父聆听忏悔的）忏悔室，告解所 the secrets of the confessional Example sentencesExamples Such people appear to have no conception of why the Church has confessionals or the Seal. The play then shifts to a church confessional where the geek is talking about the sniffing incident, about how it was a sinful display but arousing nonetheless. And there were a good many other sequences planned for the picture which are not there, including her visit to a confessional in the Catholic church - without words, nothing was ever said. And it is true that a priest has a rebuttable presumption against revealing in court what he has heard in the confessional. After a brief opening prayer, parents line up with their children, presenting them to one of the waiting priests, seated not inside confessionals but on chairs scattered throughout the church. Canada, said the news agency, was advancing a plan that would deny clergy the right to refuse testimony on anything they heard in the confessional. The answer is one that feminists do not like to hear - namely, that the priest is an icon of Christ and acts in persona Christi at the altar and in the confessional. Old-fashioned confessionals having been tossed out long ago, the rule is that ‘reconciliation rooms’ must have a clear window with somebody posted outside to keep an eye on things. This latter, partly the result of the rise of therapy and the women's movement, naturally means that fewer people feel the pressure to tell which swelled nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century confessionals. From the altar area worshipers may access the ambulatory as it extends along the north side of the structure, where the confessionals are located. They're right beside churches with drive-through confessionals. Not a very large structure, the church was more of a chapel - bearing only five rows of pews, a small confessional, and an altar below a crucifix. Repenting sinners may find relief in an item being auctioned on the Internet by a Vienna church - a cherry-wood confessional. I'm going to have to spend a year in the confessional at church after all this is over. The priest will then assign a ‘penance’, which usually consists of a few prayers to say in the church after leaving the confessional. Among American Catholics, the collapse of church discipline is symbolized by empty confessionals and more than $1 billion in settlements for clergy sexual abuses. In some dioceses, priests were expected to preach on the subject at least once a year, and it was not unusual for priests to raise the issue of contraception in the confessional. ‘I came here for meaning,’ Gavin says to the priest in the confessional. Consequently, the screenplay has him paying frequent visits to a confessional. His film springs from a US culture steeped in acts of catharsis, where the therapist's couch has usurped the church confessional, and in its turn it has been eclipsed by the public exorcisms of the chat show. 2An acknowledgement that one has done something shameful or embarrassing; a confession. 认错；坦白；承认；忏悔 tabloid confessionals Example sentencesExamples This sophomore effort features 10 romantic confessionals composed mostly on acoustic guitar and piano. His lyrics read like tabloid confessionals, offering glimpses into a celebrity's life. Yes, there is the standard tawdry bedroom balderdash that sells most tell-all cinematic confessionals. Hearing these confessionals was a thrill akin to skimming Lady Macbeth's diary or getting drunk with Machiavelli. It's a little disconcerting hearing the wide-eyed troubadour so distraught, but if it's any consolation, the emotional intensity of his folksy confessionals and heartfelt power-pop nuggets have been jacked up considerably. My stateside imagination ran more cheaply toward TV reality programs and talk-show confessionals. But I would suspect that this is one of those first person confessionals secretly disguised as a generalization-laden argument. While such toe-curling confessionals may grate with some, they nonetheless fill its forty-five minutes with a world-weary warmth and idealism to match the boundary-breaking beats. It seals its fate with private camera confessionals, team challenges, and the mandatory hot tub (why must there always be a hot tub?). In these days of tabloid confessionals and celebrity magazines, the sound of rock stars complaining about their lot has become a familiar one. The subject matter is still that of broken relationships but, whereas before the sense was of an unremitting resignation, now a lighter note leavens the confessionals. It is largely due to her polished prose that the books rise above the level of confessionals. ‘I want to hear a love confessional,’ he said before realizing he was saying it. The books, like their women's-mag forerunners, are a string of outrageous confessionals from women in the grips of dating crises. This is her most personal record, both in that she's had more to do with the music than ever before, and also that it continues with her apparent desire to write songs as confessionals. If I wanted to hear confessionals about someone's sad youth, I'd go read some freshman poetry, or read any of the innumerable sob story memoirs that populate bookshelves and which we all pretty much agreed suck, I think. He stopped embracing jealousy not wanting to hear a maudlin confessional in the hallway outside the lavatories. In this time of tell-all public confessionals, I'm coming clean about my own coming-of-age, as it were. On-camera confessionals narrate already obvious conflicts with either eye-rolling sarcasm or lip-quivering sincerity. What he rejected was the part designed for him by American commerce, a chance to be part of the traffic in ethnic confessionals, a part in the drama of a show trial of the sixties; he did not reject the forms of fiction themselves. adjective kənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l 1(of speech or writing) in which a person reveals private thoughts or admits to past incidents, especially ones about which they feel ashamed or embarrassed. （尤指演讲、文章）自白（性）的 the autobiography is remarkably confessional 自传作了惊人的忏悔。 his confessional outpourings 他倾泻而出的忏悔。 Example sentencesExamples I have used the confessional voice in both poetry and prose myself, not because I couldn't contain my urge to express myself, but because I thought that it might well be the best technique for a certain piece. Matters get decidedly steamy and a tad too confessional, though the lyrical twists reveal depth and vulnerability alongside the braggadocio. ‘The tradition of secrecy that exists there is conducive to the confessional aspect of singing and writing songs,’ he says. However, in a drunk, confessional moment, she reveals her desire to ‘know why my grandparents were kicked off that island’. Jason coincidentally put up a post about pre-web writings on the same day I stumbled upon a confessional diary of my teenage years. In a series of confessional encounters with his Dublin therapist, Ian, he reveals the hoarded guilt that rationally explains an irrational phenomenon. By confusing the public and the private, today's confessional culture undermines the idea of the ‘public interest’. It edges you away from the tendency towards melodrama that you occasionally get in confessional verse. This is not necessarily a criticism: refusing to provide much context for their narratives, these songs are guardedly confessional, eager to elicit emotions but hesitant to reveal too much. While I'm in a confessional mood, I might as well admit that the technique of salting hashes for increased security in storing passwords had passed me by until recently, too. OK I was just responded to by someone who listened to my stuff, cutting my confessional train of thought off. With jangly guitars, electronic touches, melancholic melodies, and confessional lyrics, this album is a must have for any indie-pop enthusiast. The project (not so much a blog, don't worry) is an ongoing compilation of anonymous, mailed-in confessional postcards prettied up with thematic drawings or collages. In fact, both are closer to the warts-and-all confessional psychodramas of reality TV. Instead it was a solid, sensible, stately speech, at times confessional, highly personal. And the evidence of that confession, or confessional statement, was admitted without objection? The reaction to our contemporary confessional culture has altered the meaning of free speech and privacy. Like its multi-platinum predecessor, it's full of yearning tunes and poignant, confessional lyrics that foster an intense and highly personal sense of identification between the band and its fans. One senses they'd rather have a confessional book. Anyhow, it's not a surprise that so many of the examples of this kind are in confessional writing about relationship problems. 1.1 Relating to religious confession. （与）忏悔（有关）的，（与）告解（有关）的 the priest leaned forward in his best confessional manner 神父以他最完美的听取忏悔的态度倾身向前。 Example sentencesExamples Usually once the ‘penitent’, that is, the person going to confession, closes the confessional door, he or she kneels down on a kneeler, or in the case of someone who is elderly or has another reason for doing so, he or she sits down. Did he mean he would violate the confessional seal? With great scholarly skill, he shows how centuries-old Orthodox religious philosophy and rituals resembled the penitent, confessional modes employed in the Soviet era. They spoke in a confessional whisper. The confessional language is stunning in its clarity: ‘I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.’ Perhaps she might even blurt it out in a confessional whisper. A severe looking priest up front was speaking very softly, only slightly louder than a confessional whisper. However, I would no longer go in a confessional booth and say sorry to some superior being for my mistakes, instead, I learn from them, I could never be sorry for my life experiences. But I did not know until later that our Baptist forefathers had found that wonderful document to be a helpful guide in formulating our early confessional statements. I cried, the shock hurling my voice aloud, out of the confessional whisper. Church leaders should not use the protection they enjoy from being forced to reveal the confessional conversations they have with parishioners to shield priests accused of child abuse. It becomes an open diary or confessional booth, where inward thoughts are publicly aired. 2Relating to confessions of faith or doctrinal systems. （与）宗教信仰声明（有关）的；（与）信条（或信仰）（有关）的 the confessional approach to religious education 信仰声明式的宗教教育方法。 Example sentencesExamples Every denomination has its theological articles and books of theology, its liturgies and confessional statements. He rejected confessional Christianity and allowed religious toleration in his kingdom. Institutionally, the field is not best described in the ways better suited to a previous period, using the categories of confessional theology and neutral religious studies. Christian doctrine identifies the rules by which Christians use confessional language to define the social world that they indwell. It is not a confessional religious statement about the nature of God; rather, only the view of the writer/community is presented. He was an unashamed confessional Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism. In the field of confessional theology there have been developments that allow greater receptivity to new ideas. Religion, especially confessional Christianity, has always concerned itself with authority and certainty. When theological professors and pastors abandon the biblical and confessional doctrine of justification, they sacrifice the gospel and the souls of men. The role of confessional statements in the search for unity and the effect of participation in the Eucharist to establish the fellowship of believers with each other and Jesus Christ are seen as forging an inner link. In the minds of the Enlightenment thinkers, confessional religion, unless checked by law or by free competition, led inevitably to tyranny and persecution. The decree on revelation, moreover, underscored the mystery of our encounter with the divine and hence the inadequacy of all our confessional statements about it. They started with an a priori assumption that their particular confessional stance descended from the original expression of the Christian faith in the first century. With regard to Baptists becoming teachers in public schools and confessional religious instruction, the situation in Finland has been much the same as in the other Nordic countries. God is not revealed in words and confessional statements, but as presence. Perhaps the textual orientation of cyberspace will reinvigorate the literate modes of Calvinism and other confessional groups. Curiously, his weakest section is the book's centerpiece chapter on the phenomenon of confessional Protestantism. American confessional Protestantism lacks the strength, influence, and productivity to carry this much weight, and it has been so lacking for a long time. Derivatives confessionally adverb Poverty and social degradation breed discontent in certain population groups especially in the ethnically and confessionally patchy states. Example sentencesExamples The shift to resistance theory was confessionally driven and was a ‘British’ and French Huguenot development. I am not writing therapeutically or confessionally. The failure to implement policies intended to undermine confessionally based political power have curtailed that hope. Luther's theology of two kingdoms (law for one, gospel for the other) creates a dilemma for those theologically and confessionally orthodox Lutherans who wish to oppose women's ordination. Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): the adjective from confession + -al; the noun via French from Italian confessionale, from medieval Latin, neuter of confessionalis, from Latin confessio(n-), from confiteri 'acknowledge' (see confess). Rhymes congressional, expressional, impressional, obsessional, processional, professional, progressional, recessional, secessional, sessional, successional Definition of confessional in US English: confessional nounkənˈfeSH(ə)n(ə)lkənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l 1An enclosed stall in a church divided by a screen or curtain in which a priest sits to hear people confess their sins. （神父聆听忏悔的）忏悔室，告解所 Example sentencesExamples Not a very large structure, the church was more of a chapel - bearing only five rows of pews, a small confessional, and an altar below a crucifix. Such people appear to have no conception of why the Church has confessionals or the Seal. This latter, partly the result of the rise of therapy and the women's movement, naturally means that fewer people feel the pressure to tell which swelled nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century confessionals. Canada, said the news agency, was advancing a plan that would deny clergy the right to refuse testimony on anything they heard in the confessional. And there were a good many other sequences planned for the picture which are not there, including her visit to a confessional in the Catholic church - without words, nothing was ever said. His film springs from a US culture steeped in acts of catharsis, where the therapist's couch has usurped the church confessional, and in its turn it has been eclipsed by the public exorcisms of the chat show. The priest will then assign a ‘penance’, which usually consists of a few prayers to say in the church after leaving the confessional. Consequently, the screenplay has him paying frequent visits to a confessional. Old-fashioned confessionals having been tossed out long ago, the rule is that ‘reconciliation rooms’ must have a clear window with somebody posted outside to keep an eye on things. After a brief opening prayer, parents line up with their children, presenting them to one of the waiting priests, seated not inside confessionals but on chairs scattered throughout the church. They're right beside churches with drive-through confessionals. In some dioceses, priests were expected to preach on the subject at least once a year, and it was not unusual for priests to raise the issue of contraception in the confessional. The play then shifts to a church confessional where the geek is talking about the sniffing incident, about how it was a sinful display but arousing nonetheless. Repenting sinners may find relief in an item being auctioned on the Internet by a Vienna church - a cherry-wood confessional. I'm going to have to spend a year in the confessional at church after all this is over. ‘I came here for meaning,’ Gavin says to the priest in the confessional. From the altar area worshipers may access the ambulatory as it extends along the north side of the structure, where the confessionals are located. Among American Catholics, the collapse of church discipline is symbolized by empty confessionals and more than $1 billion in settlements for clergy sexual abuses. The answer is one that feminists do not like to hear - namely, that the priest is an icon of Christ and acts in persona Christi at the altar and in the confessional. And it is true that a priest has a rebuttable presumption against revealing in court what he has heard in the confessional. 2An admission or acknowledgment that one has done something that one is ashamed or embarrassed about; a confession. 认错；坦白；承认；忏悔 Example sentencesExamples ‘I want to hear a love confessional,’ he said before realizing he was saying it. He stopped embracing jealousy not wanting to hear a maudlin confessional in the hallway outside the lavatories. While such toe-curling confessionals may grate with some, they nonetheless fill its forty-five minutes with a world-weary warmth and idealism to match the boundary-breaking beats. This is her most personal record, both in that she's had more to do with the music than ever before, and also that it continues with her apparent desire to write songs as confessionals. On-camera confessionals narrate already obvious conflicts with either eye-rolling sarcasm or lip-quivering sincerity. It is largely due to her polished prose that the books rise above the level of confessionals. My stateside imagination ran more cheaply toward TV reality programs and talk-show confessionals. In these days of tabloid confessionals and celebrity magazines, the sound of rock stars complaining about their lot has become a familiar one. If I wanted to hear confessionals about someone's sad youth, I'd go read some freshman poetry, or read any of the innumerable sob story memoirs that populate bookshelves and which we all pretty much agreed suck, I think. What he rejected was the part designed for him by American commerce, a chance to be part of the traffic in ethnic confessionals, a part in the drama of a show trial of the sixties; he did not reject the forms of fiction themselves. His lyrics read like tabloid confessionals, offering glimpses into a celebrity's life. It's a little disconcerting hearing the wide-eyed troubadour so distraught, but if it's any consolation, the emotional intensity of his folksy confessionals and heartfelt power-pop nuggets have been jacked up considerably. This sophomore effort features 10 romantic confessionals composed mostly on acoustic guitar and piano. The subject matter is still that of broken relationships but, whereas before the sense was of an unremitting resignation, now a lighter note leavens the confessionals. The books, like their women's-mag forerunners, are a string of outrageous confessionals from women in the grips of dating crises. But I would suspect that this is one of those first person confessionals secretly disguised as a generalization-laden argument. Yes, there is the standard tawdry bedroom balderdash that sells most tell-all cinematic confessionals. Hearing these confessionals was a thrill akin to skimming Lady Macbeth's diary or getting drunk with Machiavelli. In this time of tell-all public confessionals, I'm coming clean about my own coming-of-age, as it were. It seals its fate with private camera confessionals, team challenges, and the mandatory hot tub (why must there always be a hot tub?). adjectivekənˈfeSH(ə)n(ə)lkənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l 1(especially of speech or writing) in which a person reveals or admits to private thoughts or past incidents, especially ones that cause shame or embarrassment. （尤指演讲、文章）自白（性）的 the autobiography is remarkably confessional 自传作了惊人的忏悔。 his confessional outpourings 他倾泻而出的忏悔。 Example sentencesExamples I have used the confessional voice in both poetry and prose myself, not because I couldn't contain my urge to express myself, but because I thought that it might well be the best technique for a certain piece. ‘The tradition of secrecy that exists there is conducive to the confessional aspect of singing and writing songs,’ he says. In fact, both are closer to the warts-and-all confessional psychodramas of reality TV. It edges you away from the tendency towards melodrama that you occasionally get in confessional verse. However, in a drunk, confessional moment, she reveals her desire to ‘know why my grandparents were kicked off that island’. OK I was just responded to by someone who listened to my stuff, cutting my confessional train of thought off. Matters get decidedly steamy and a tad too confessional, though the lyrical twists reveal depth and vulnerability alongside the braggadocio. With jangly guitars, electronic touches, melancholic melodies, and confessional lyrics, this album is a must have for any indie-pop enthusiast. Anyhow, it's not a surprise that so many of the examples of this kind are in confessional writing about relationship problems. Like its multi-platinum predecessor, it's full of yearning tunes and poignant, confessional lyrics that foster an intense and highly personal sense of identification between the band and its fans. Instead it was a solid, sensible, stately speech, at times confessional, highly personal. In a series of confessional encounters with his Dublin therapist, Ian, he reveals the hoarded guilt that rationally explains an irrational phenomenon. By confusing the public and the private, today's confessional culture undermines the idea of the ‘public interest’. This is not necessarily a criticism: refusing to provide much context for their narratives, these songs are guardedly confessional, eager to elicit emotions but hesitant to reveal too much. The project (not so much a blog, don't worry) is an ongoing compilation of anonymous, mailed-in confessional postcards prettied up with thematic drawings or collages. And the evidence of that confession, or confessional statement, was admitted without objection? While I'm in a confessional mood, I might as well admit that the technique of salting hashes for increased security in storing passwords had passed me by until recently, too. One senses they'd rather have a confessional book. Jason coincidentally put up a post about pre-web writings on the same day I stumbled upon a confessional diary of my teenage years. The reaction to our contemporary confessional culture has altered the meaning of free speech and privacy. 1.1 Relating to religious confession. （与）忏悔（有关）的，（与）告解（有关）的 the priest leaned forward in his best confessional manner 神父以他最完美的听取忏悔的态度倾身向前。 Example sentencesExamples I cried, the shock hurling my voice aloud, out of the confessional whisper. Perhaps she might even blurt it out in a confessional whisper. Did he mean he would violate the confessional seal? Usually once the ‘penitent’, that is, the person going to confession, closes the confessional door, he or she kneels down on a kneeler, or in the case of someone who is elderly or has another reason for doing so, he or she sits down. The confessional language is stunning in its clarity: ‘I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.’ It becomes an open diary or confessional booth, where inward thoughts are publicly aired. A severe looking priest up front was speaking very softly, only slightly louder than a confessional whisper. Church leaders should not use the protection they enjoy from being forced to reveal the confessional conversations they have with parishioners to shield priests accused of child abuse. However, I would no longer go in a confessional booth and say sorry to some superior being for my mistakes, instead, I learn from them, I could never be sorry for my life experiences. But I did not know until later that our Baptist forefathers had found that wonderful document to be a helpful guide in formulating our early confessional statements. With great scholarly skill, he shows how centuries-old Orthodox religious philosophy and rituals resembled the penitent, confessional modes employed in the Soviet era. They spoke in a confessional whisper. 2Relating to confessions of faith or doctrinal systems. （与）宗教信仰声明（有关）的；（与）信条（或信仰）（有关）的 the confessional approach to religious education 信仰声明式的宗教教育方法。 Example sentencesExamples It is not a confessional religious statement about the nature of God; rather, only the view of the writer/community is presented. Curiously, his weakest section is the book's centerpiece chapter on the phenomenon of confessional Protestantism. The decree on revelation, moreover, underscored the mystery of our encounter with the divine and hence the inadequacy of all our confessional statements about it. Religion, especially confessional Christianity, has always concerned itself with authority and certainty. When theological professors and pastors abandon the biblical and confessional doctrine of justification, they sacrifice the gospel and the souls of men. They started with an a priori assumption that their particular confessional stance descended from the original expression of the Christian faith in the first century. He rejected confessional Christianity and allowed religious toleration in his kingdom. In the field of confessional theology there have been developments that allow greater receptivity to new ideas. American confessional Protestantism lacks the strength, influence, and productivity to carry this much weight, and it has been so lacking for a long time. The role of confessional statements in the search for unity and the effect of participation in the Eucharist to establish the fellowship of believers with each other and Jesus Christ are seen as forging an inner link. Christian doctrine identifies the rules by which Christians use confessional language to define the social world that they indwell. Every denomination has its theological articles and books of theology, its liturgies and confessional statements. Perhaps the textual orientation of cyberspace will reinvigorate the literate modes of Calvinism and other confessional groups. With regard to Baptists becoming teachers in public schools and confessional religious instruction, the situation in Finland has been much the same as in the other Nordic countries. In the minds of the Enlightenment thinkers, confessional religion, unless checked by law or by free competition, led inevitably to tyranny and persecution. Institutionally, the field is not best described in the ways better suited to a previous period, using the categories of confessional theology and neutral religious studies. God is not revealed in words and confessional statements, but as presence. He was an unashamed confessional Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism. Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): the adjective from confession + -al; the noun via French from Italian confessionale, from medieval Latin, neuter of confessionalis, from Latin confessio(n-), from confiteri ‘acknowledge’ (see confess).
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