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asmallstructurelike aboxin achurch,especiallyaRomanCatholicchurch, in whichpeoplecanprivatelyconfessto apriest （尤指天主教堂中神父听取忏悔、告罪的）忏悔室，告解室SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesChristianity: The Roman Catholic Church - anti-Catholic
- anti-Catholicism
- apostolic
- beatification
- Cistercian
- conclave
- concordat
- convent
- encyclical
- enter a conventidiom
- liberation theology
- Madonna
- Marian
- RC
- Roman Catholic
- stoup
- tabernacle
- the Angelus
- the Vatican
- transubstantiation
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Parts of religious buildings - He had stood there, indeed, from the moment of the girl's entrance into the confessional.
- If I had been a wiser girl, a stronger, and a more sensible, very likely I might not have gone to the confessional at all.
- Seated sideways in his confessional, he stamped on the floor, abused me, and spoke disrespectfully of the King.
- The crowd of penitents melted away one by one, the few last stragglers had been heard, and still the priest waited in his confessional.
- You have heard in the confessional the history of many great sins, but I know that this is not what troubles you.
Examplesofconfessionalconfessional Its segmented politics, largely a product of theconfessionalsystem, is a recipe for corruption and, ultimately, government failure.From theCambridge English Corpus While the volume contains some interesting material, it is unlikely to recommend itself to readers who do not share its very overtconfessionaloutlook.From theCambridge English Corpus According to context the term superstition might designate controversial beliefs, the practice ofconfessionalopponents or the beliefs of the ignorant masses.From theCambridge English Corpus Whether they will pursue this equality in more narrowly definedconfessionalterms, or within broader cross-ethnic alliances, still requires much additional research.From theCambridge English Corpus And finally, he researched the diagram of a pastoral society which underlies the crusades and theconfessional.From theCambridge English Corpus The bridges it had tried to build were broken at both ends, and theconfessionalhistorians of both sides hastened to erase its memory.From theCambridge English Corpus As the major parties developed away from interest, class, orconfessionalbases, a principal resource for verbal clashes declined.From theCambridge English Corpus One of his main points is about the importance of ideological promiscuity acrossconfessionaland national boundaries.From theCambridge English Corpus Seemingly in the moment of crisis, personal ties were as important asconfessionalallegiance.From theCambridge English Corpus Literary projects could be used to establish and consolidate working relationships across theconfessionalspectrum.From theCambridge English Corpus Confessionalstatus was used as an argument to improve the distribution of economic resources.From theCambridge English Corpus In particular, the anti-baladiyya party emphasized the tribal andconfessionalheterogeneity of their community and the real possibility of intercommunal strife.From theCambridge English Corpus Another issue that warrants further examination concerns the extent to which the supernatural was implicated inconfessionaland party politics.From theCambridge English Corpus Reformation politics powerfully resurrected the view that the religious identity of a people must be considered a function of their ruler'sconfessionalconviction.From theCambridge English Corpus Because identity was expressed in religious terms at the time, communities cherished a "confessional" identity, constructed by adherents and deconstructed by enemies.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |