Confessional is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONFESSIONAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the practice of confession
• an enclosed stall in a church divided by a screen or curtain in which a priest sits to hear confessions
• an acknowledgement that one has done something shameful or embarrassing; a confession
• relating to religious confession
• (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
• relating to confessions of faith or doctrinal systems
• The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest\'s ear without being seen by him or heard by others.
• a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to confession
• Pertaining to a confession of faith.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a place where a priest hears confessions

Words related to CONFESSIONAL

confessionally22 confessionals18

Words that contain CONFESSIONAL

confessionals18 confessionally22 confessionalism22 confessionalist20 confessionalisms23 confessionalists21

How to use CONFESSIONAL in a sentence

• So the Confessional arose, as a necessary element for educating savages into common morality and decency.
• Having spent many years in a monastery, and having become convinced of his error, he now sought to enlighten the people on the subject of the confessional.
• Religion, the confessional, the bible, the Mass, Vespers, the New Testament, all the holy business is an auxiliary for them.
• When at the dread Confessional, Men trembled from their early youth, Taught to fear, on pain of Hell, To utter more or less than Truth.
• In the hands of the priest, who, at the confessional, could extract or extort from them their most secret thoughts, his wife and his servants were turned into spies.
• The confessional box from which Alice had vanished was one not in use at the moment, owing to repairs in the wall behind it.
• Father Francesco had just returned from the scene in the confessional we have already described.
• In utter prostration, and sacred privacy of soul, I almost think now, and have often felt heretofore, man may make a confessional of the breast of his brother man.
• By cunning use of the confessional, and by unscrupulous control of opinion, the Church succeeded in doing there much the same as in any other Italian city.
• Though in the confessional my uncle is a priest, he never is one in a drawing-room.
• This all happened as though in the confessional, and no one can accuse us of having acted as we did willingly or voluntarily or with pleasure or joy.
• They were plainly-worded statements of the same points he had made in the confessional and in his sermon.
• How they settled this in the confessional I do not know, possibly it was a trifle they did not consider worth troubling the priest with.
• Indeed, in the choir of the church there are some candelabra by him, and an altar, built, as it is said, out of two confessional boxes.
• My father once said that it is the healthful humiliation of the confessional that is its reason for existing.
• With a sigh of utter weariness, weariness of body, weariness of mind, Father Xavier rose and left the confessional.
• In the early part of the nineteenth century there was in Switzerland, as in Germany, a strife between the old confessional faith and Rationalism.
• The world knows that the seal of the confessional is sacred, and must be observed at all costs.
• His intimidation had worked upon her conscience and driven her to the confessional.
• The words that have just violated this chapel were not said under the seal of the confessional, and I shall deal with them as I have said.
• He wondered why only one church saw the need of the confessional, why he could not go, even to Thorpe, and share the burden that oppressed his guilty soul.
• She herself called herself the Family Confessional.
• Elsie returned from the confessional a little after sunrise, much relieved and satisfied.
• I will now descend from the confessional, which I think I have occupied long enough for the patience of my fair confessor.
• By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional.
• The private closet is sometimes a branch of the confessional.
• Invisible and silent stands The temple never made with hands, Unheard the voices still and small Of its unseen confessional.
• One Saturday, when I was in Paris, He sent me to Notre Dame des Victoires, where the Father was in the confessional.
• Especially on days when there was a great show of cotton and linen goods, or a sale of bankrupt stock, there was a perfect rush of well-dressed women to the confessional.
• They highly esteem the confessional, and when they become sick they clamor at once for the father, and find relief in making their confession.
• Three bodies were found in a confessional of one of the fallen churches.
• He had been there engaged in prayer for more than an hour, when the Archbishop of Mayence appeared, and, after a brief adoration, entered the confessional.
• We worked until my mother interrupted us with a summons to an early dinner, for Saturday evening belongs to the confessional and I was shortly due at the church.

Similar words containing NFESSION without suffix al and without prefix co

confession15 confessions16 confessionals18 confessionary21 confessionally22 confessionalism22 confessionalist20 confessionaries20 confessionalisms23 confessionalists21

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