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confessionary

[ kuhn-fesh-uh-ner-ee ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to confession, especially auricular confession of sins.


noun

plural confessionaries.
  1. Archaic. a confessional.
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of confessionary1

1600鈥10; < Medieval Latin 肠辞苍蹿别蝉蝉颈艒苍腻谤颈耻蝉, equivalent to 肠辞苍蹿别蝉蝉颈艒苍- confession + -腻谤颈耻蝉 -ary
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The confessionary monologist was one of a parade of arts-world heavy-hitters who visited Bumbershoot around the turn of the millennium.

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There were a few persons鈥攏ot the model men of the community鈥攖o whom he occasionally unbent and whom he admitted to a sort of comradeship, which, as his diary shows, often became confessionary upon their part.

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Bartholom猫 de Alva refers to them in a passage of his Confessionary.

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To reach these altars, a certain crypt which the Romans call a Confessionary had to be ascended by means of several steps from the choir of the singers.

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This crypt was fabricated beneath in the likeness of the confessionary of St. Peter, the vault of which was raised so high that the part above could only be reached by many steps.鈥

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