Definition of confessional
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:a place where a priest hears confessions
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:the practice of confessing to a priest
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Jay-Z’s new album blew me away with the star’s ability turn to the introspective and the confessional, along with the political and grandiose.
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Based on Jeannette Walls’ 2005 best-selling memoir, the film is both a tribute to parenting and a confessional of its absence.
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Yet Jenner combines the self-obsession of a teenager with the reflexive crouch of someone who has learned to quash confessional impulses.
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The door to one bedroom is an antique three-door confessional — center door for the priest, two side doors for penitents.
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Less than 24 hours after JAY-Z's 13th album, 4:44, dropped as a midnight exclusive on Tidal/Sprint on Friday (June 30), Billboard has learned that the confessional 10-track work will soon be available elsewhere.
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Over his 10-year YouTube career, Oakley has amassed nearly 8 million subscribers to his channel, with videos that cover everything from personal confessionals to collaborations with fellow YouTubers.
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Lowell was perhaps the most notorious practitioner of the confessional poetry Bishop repudiated, along with contemporaries like Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton and John Berryman.
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For Bishop, much of this frustration was directed at how the confessional, for a woman, meant hemming herself in, when poetry had always freed her.
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First Known Use of confessional
1727
Definition of confessional
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:of, relating to, or being a confession especially of faith
2 a
:intimately autobiographical
- confessional fiction
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:characterized by unguarded openness or self-revelation
- We live in a confessional culture, provoked by social media and the internet and the warmth of the human impulse to share and … commiserate.
- —Megan Garber
Examples of confessional in a Sentence
confessional interviews of famous actors
Recent Examples of confessional from the Web
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Some of its 80-odd shows, of course, take on familiar forms: Short plays, comic and/or confessional monologues, choreographic showcases.
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The conflict, which did not stop in the soul of the composer, determined the confessional sound of Tchaikovsky’s music.
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So British that, rather than back-stabbing each other in confessional interviews with the camera, contestants frequently loan out ingredients or help each other recover from pastrytastrophes.
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But thus far, Rachel's confessional commentary suggests that an adult is a good listener, honest and hard-working, open with his feelings, able to have fun, romantic, and willing to make the first move.
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But Oswalt followed intensely confessional moments like that with equally hilarious imagery, here describing being peppered with unfiltered questions from his daughter's friends after four sleepless nights.
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Still, most experts do not expect Francis to take Trump to the woodshed -- or drag him to the confessional booth -- on Wednesday.
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Franken stepped into her line of sight to offer a contrite, confessional gesture.
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Still, the new collection forms a vivid mosaic of the artist, even without his latest, most confessional material.
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First Known Use of confessional
1684
CONFESSIONAL Defined for English Language Learners
confessional
play
noun
Definition of confessional for English Language Learners
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: a private place inside a church where a priest hears confessions
confessional
adjective
Definition of confessional for English Language Learners
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: telling private information about a person's life
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