OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 30910

confessional

/kənˈfɛʃənəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
confesionario • confesonario • confesorio
A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
In one of the aisles there was an elaborately carved confessional box and I recognised the village priest in his heavy mountain boots and black cassock as he entered it and drew th…
The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.
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