confessional

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   In the manner or style of a confession.

   • The studied reticence of the poems in quatrains is opposed to the more confessional aspects of the monologue.
2. 2

   Officially practicing a particular shared religion, as a state or organization

   Officially practicing a particular shared religion, as a state or organization; see confessionalism (sense 1).

   • confessional community
3. 3

   A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a…

   A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.

   • The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.
   • 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 the dark velvet curtains behind him.
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   1. 4

      A confession.

   2. 5

      A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on…

      A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.

      • We see Brooks seethe in a corner, and, in a cut to a confessional, he exaggerates the scene, saying, “I’m feeling really uncomfortable. Her vagina’s in my face.”

The neighborhood

• neighborinterconfessional