confessionary

[ kuhn-fesh-uh-ner-ee ]

adjective

1. of or relating to confession, especially auricular confession of sins.

noun

, plural con·fes·sion·ar·ies.

1. Archaic. a confessional.

Word History and Origins

Origin of confessionary¹

1600–10; < Medieval Latin confessiōnārius, equivalent to confessiōn- confession + -ārius -ary

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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