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confessionary
[ kuhn-fesh-uh-ner-ee ]
adjective
- of or relating to confession, especially auricular confession of sins.
noun
, plural con·fes·sion·ar·ies.
- Archaic. a confessional.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of confessionary1
1600–10; < Medieval Latin confessiōnārius, equivalent to confessiōn- confession + -ārius -ary
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Example Sentences
Also, being without the confessionary, I gave her many embraces, and solicited her to love me.
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I never took any great liberties with her, but touched her a few times while in the confessionary.
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Bartholomè de Alva refers to them in a passage of his Confessionary.
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