释义 |
conˈfessionalist [f. as prec. + -ist.] 1. One who makes confession.
1827Bentham Rationale Evid. Wks. 1843 VII. 30 Physical and involuntary symptoms of fear, betrayed by the confessionalist upon an occasion specified. 2. ‘A confessor, one who sits in the confessional’.
1846Worcester cites Boucher. 3. = Confessionalian n. |