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Definition of confessional
1 : a place where a priest hears confessions
2 : the practice of confessing to a priest
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Recent Examples of confessional from the Web
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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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Carlile wrote in a Facebook confessional during the final days of 2016.
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Once novel, now common, live storytelling shows have gone mainstream thanks to podcasts and radio shows that blur the lines between confessional, theatrical and funny.
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But his recordings still have the immediacy of bedroom confessionals, and the instrumentation exudes the funky soul of a '70s studio cat messing around in their spare time and delivering an effortlessly organic gem.
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Martin, an American coonhound mix, serves as the show’s narrator — talking in a series of voice-overs and on-camera confessionals.
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There are also pastoral texts, catechisms and confessionals used by priests to both learn the language and try to convert the K'iche.’
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First Known Use of confessional
1727
confessional
Definition of confessional
1 : of, relating to, or being a confession especially of faith
2a : intimately autobiographical confessional fictionb : 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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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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Even folk music, the genre most typically equated with facilitating social revolution, seems to have turned inward, gotten more contemplative, more confessional.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'confessional'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of confessional
1684
CONFESSIONAL Defined for English Language Learners
confessional
playDefinition of confessional for English Language Learners
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: a private place inside a church where a priest hears confessions
confessional
Definition of confessional for English Language Learners
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: telling private information about a person's life
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