confessional – English noun declension

English noun forms of confessional

Noun: confessional
Singularconfessional
Pluralconfessionals

Sample Sentences

  • The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church. [c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter XI:]
  • In one of the aisles there was an elaborately carved confessional box and I recognised the village priest in his heavy mountain boots and black cassock as he entered it and drew the dark velvet curtains behind him. [1956, Delano Ames, chapter 13, in Crime out of Mind:]
  • 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. [2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times:]
  • 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". [2004, Ms. Magazine, volume 14:]
  • We see Brooks seethe in a corner, and, in a cut to a confessional, he exaggerates the scene, saying, “I’m feeling really uncomfortable. Her vagina’s in my face.” [2021, Doreen St. Félix, “"The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" Is Culturally Sensitive Trash”, in The New Yorker:]

Etymology

From French confessionnal. See: French Nouns 'confessionnal'.