confessional

English

confessional (not comparable)

In the manner or style of a confession.
Officially practicing a particular religion, as a state or organization. See confessionalism 1.

confessional (plural confessionals)

(Roman Catholic church) A small room where confession—the sacrament of reconciliation—is performed by a priest.
- ca. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter XI:
  The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 13, in Crime out of Mind‎:
  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.
A confession
- 2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times‎:
  When a 35-year-old Bill Clinton, famously the nation’s youngest former governor, set out in 1982 to reclaim the job he had lost two years earlier, he began with a remarkable televised confessional. “My daddy never had to whip me twice for the same thing,” Mr. Clinton told Arkansans in a campaign commercial, acknowledging voters’ anger over his having raised a hated vehicle fee and vowing to listen better if they gave him another chance as governor.

a small room where confession is performed

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