confessional

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kənˈfɛʃənəl/    美 /kənˈfɛʃənəl/|/kənˈfeʃənəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
    — The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.
  2. A confession.
    — When a 35-year-old Bill Clinton, famously the nation’s youngest former governor, set out in 1982 to reclaim the job he had lost two years earlier, he began with a remarkable televised confessional. “My daddy never had to whip me twice for the same thing,” Mr. Clinton told Arkansans in a campaign commercial, acknowledging voters’ anger over his having raised a hated vehicle fee and vowing to listen better if they gave him another chance as governor.
  3. A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.
    — These characters behave as crassly as they do in large part because producers of shows such as The Bachelor deprive them of all contact with the outside world ([…]) and ply them with alcohol, then goad them to unleash their petty grievances in filmed "confessionals".
形容词 adj.
  1. In the manner or style of a confession.
    — The studied reticence of the poems in quatrains is opposed to the more confessional aspects of the monologue.
  2. Officially practicing a particular shared religion, as a state or organization; see confessionalism (sense 1).
    — confessional community

词形变化

more confessional comparative most confessional superlative confessionals plural

词汇关系

衍生词
anticonfessional confessional chair confessional debugging confessionalise confessionalist confessionality confessionalize confessionally confessional state ethnoconfessional multiconfessional nonconfessional semiconfessional
相关词
interconfessional

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English confession
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English confessional
From confession + -al.
词源 2
From French confessionnal.
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