英语词汇“confessional”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

confessional

/kənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l

noun

1An enclosed stall in a church divided by a screen or curtain in which a priest sits to hear confessions: the secrets of 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.
‘I came here for meaning,’ Gavin says to the priest in the confessional.
The priest will then assign a ‘penance’, which usually consists of a few prayers to say in the church after leaving the confessional.

2An acknowledgement that one has done something shameful or embarrassing; a confession: tabloid confessionals...

His lyrics read like tabloid confessionals, offering glimpses into a celebrity's life.
In these days of tabloid confessionals and celebrity magazines, the sound of rock stars complaining about their lot has become a familiar one.
It seals its fate with private camera confessionals, team challenges, and the mandatory hot tub (why must there always be a hot tub?).

adjective

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: the autobiography is remarkably confessional his confessional outpourings...

Anyhow, it's not a surprise that so many of the examples of this kind are in confessional writing about relationship problems.
By confusing the public and the private, today's confessional culture undermines the idea of the ‘public interest’.
And the evidence of that confession, or confessional statement, was admitted without objection?

1.1Relating to religious confession: the priest leaned forward in his best confessional manner...

With great scholarly skill, he shows how centuries-old Orthodox religious philosophy and rituals resembled the penitent, confessional modes employed in the Soviet era.
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.
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.

2Relating to confessions of faith or doctrinal systems: the confessional approach to religious education...

When theological professors and pastors abandon the biblical and confessional doctrine of justification, they sacrifice the gospel and the souls of men.
He was an unashamed confessional Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism.
Christian doctrine identifies the rules by which Christians use confessional language to define the social world that they indwell.

Derivatives

confessionally

adverb ...

I am not writing therapeutically or confessionally.
The failure to implement policies intended to undermine confessionally based political power have curtailed that hope.
The shift to resistance theory was confessionally driven and was a ‘British’ and French Huguenot development.

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).

单词	confessional
释义	confessional /kənˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l / noun 1An enclosed stall in a church divided by a screen or curtain in which a priest sits to hear confessions: the secrets of 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. ‘I came here for meaning,’ Gavin says to the priest in the confessional. The priest will then assign a ‘penance’, which usually consists of a few prayers to say in the church after leaving the confessional. 2An acknowledgement that one has done something shameful or embarrassing; a confession: tabloid confessionals... His lyrics read like tabloid confessionals, offering glimpses into a celebrity's life. In these days of tabloid confessionals and celebrity magazines, the sound of rock stars complaining about their lot has become a familiar one. It seals its fate with private camera confessionals, team challenges, and the mandatory hot tub (why must there always be a hot tub?). adjective 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: the autobiography is remarkably confessional his confessional outpourings... Anyhow, it's not a surprise that so many of the examples of this kind are in confessional writing about relationship problems. By confusing the public and the private, today's confessional culture undermines the idea of the ‘public interest’. And the evidence of that confession, or confessional statement, was admitted without objection? 1.1Relating to religious confession: the priest leaned forward in his best confessional manner... With great scholarly skill, he shows how centuries-old Orthodox religious philosophy and rituals resembled the penitent, confessional modes employed in the Soviet era. 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. 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. 2Relating to confessions of faith or doctrinal systems: the confessional approach to religious education... When theological professors and pastors abandon the biblical and confessional doctrine of justification, they sacrifice the gospel and the souls of men. He was an unashamed confessional Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism. Christian doctrine identifies the rules by which Christians use confessional language to define the social world that they indwell. Derivatives confessionally adverb ... I am not writing therapeutically or confessionally. The failure to implement policies intended to undermine confessionally based political power have curtailed that hope. The shift to resistance theory was confessionally driven and was a ‘British’ and French Huguenot development. 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
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confessional

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confessionally

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