| 词汇 | confessional |
| 释义 | confessional noun[ C ] uk /kənˈfeʃ.ən.əl/ us /kənˈfeʃ.ən.əl/ a small structure like a box in a church, especially a Roman Catholic church, in which people can privately confess to a priest（尤指天主教堂中神父听取忏悔、告罪的）忏悔室，告解室 Christianity: The Roman Catholic Church anti-Catholic anti-Catholicism apostolic beatification Cistercian concordat convent encyclical enter a conventidiom indulgence liberation theology Madonna Marian stoup tabernacle the Angelus the Immaculate Conception the Spanish Inquisition the Stations of the Cross transubstantiation You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Parts of religious buildings He had stood there, indeed, from the moment of the girl's entrance into the confessional. If I had been a wiser girl, a stronger, and a more sensible, very likely I might not have gone to the confessional at all. Seated sideways in his confessional, he stamped on the floor, abused me, and spoke disrespectfully of the King. The crowd of penitents melted away one by one, the few last stragglers had been heard, and still the priest waited in his confessional. You have heard in the confessional the history of many great sins, but I know that this is not what troubles you. Examples of confessionalconfessional Its segmented politics, largely a product of the confessional system, is a recipe for corruption and, ultimately, government failure. While the volume contains some interesting material, it is unlikely to recommend itself to readers who do not share its very overt confessional outlook. According to context the term superstition might designate controversial beliefs, the practice of confessional opponents or the beliefs of the ignorant masses. Whether they will pursue this equality in more narrowly defined confessional terms, or within broader cross-ethnic alliances, still requires much additional research. And finally, he researched the diagram of a pastoral society which underlies the crusades and the confessional. The bridges it had tried to build were broken at both ends, and the confessional historians of both sides hastened to erase its memory. As the major parties developed away from interest, class, or confessional bases, a principal resource for verbal clashes declined. One of his main points is about the importance of ideological promiscuity across confessional and national boundaries. Seemingly in the moment of crisis, personal ties were as important as confessional allegiance. Literary projects could be used to establish and consolidate working relationships across the confessional spectrum. Confessional status was used as an argument to improve the distribution of economic resources. In particular, the anti-baladiyya party emphasized the tribal and confessional heterogeneity of their community and the real possibility of intercommunal strife. Another issue that warrants further examination concerns the extent to which the supernatural was implicated in confessional and party politics. Reformation politics powerfully resurrected the view that the religious identity of a people must be considered a function of their ruler's confessional conviction. Because identity was expressed in religious terms at the time, communities cherished a "confessional" identity, constructed by adherents and deconstructed by enemies. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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