What is another word for confessional?

Pronunciation: [kənfˈɛʃənə͡l] (IPA)

Confessional is a word that is often used to describe a place or moment of revelation or admission of guilt. Synonyms for confessional could include disclosure, admission, acknowledgment, proclamation, avowal, pronouncement, declaration, divulgement, deposition, revelation, and testimony. Each of these words carries a slightly different meaning, but they all relate to the act of sharing something personal or private. Confessional could also be replaced with words such as penitent, remorseful, apologetic, or repentant, which specifically convey the feeling of regret or sorrow for one's actions. The choice of synonym will depend on the context and tone of the message, and the desired effect on the audience.

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Usage examples for Confessional

21. The confessional, p.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
95. The confessional, p.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
See "confessional" and "Laboratory" 367 French Camp, Incident of the 1842 iv.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr

Famous quotes with Confessional

  • No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
    C. Day Lewis
  • My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
    Michael Pollan
  • No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
    Robert Cecil Day Lewis
  • The reason I threw a rock at Billy Walker’s stupid face was I had a crush on him. Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been thirty years since my last confession. I threw a rock at Billy Walker’s beautiful face. How many times? At what velocity? The priest does not ask if I intended to mar the face. One of the things I love about the church is that motive is assumed: Because I am human. What alone interests the confessor is the form of humanity I wish to confess. Confession is constructed as we are constructed. The confessional box prefigures the American I. I am the sinner, irreducible. My soul is irreducible. Not my red hand.
    Richard Rodriguez
  • By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated emotion. But I am thinking less of confessional experience, to which one has had to adhere up to now, than of an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, of any confession whatever. This is why I don’t like the word mystical.
    Georges Bataille

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