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Definition of Confessionals
1. confessional [n] - See also: confessional
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Literary usage of Confessionals
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1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1844)
"... as we now term them, were also I think confessionals, a!though perhaps not
... confessionals. At Lenham, in Kent, attached to the southern side of the ..."
2. Modern Parish Churches: Their Plan, Design, and Furniture by John Thomas Micklethwaite (1874)
"OF confessionals. THAT confessionals were not provided in churches built twenty
years ago, is not to be wondered at, nor even that now they should not be ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In our time among the High Church folk one notices confessionals in.the churches,
and one hears of discourses made to the people enjoining confession as a ..."
4. Reminiscences and Opinions of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1813-1885 by Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (1887)
"... villa— The confessionals at St. Peter's. AT Christmas 1827, I left Eton, not
for good, for I had much better have remained another year profiting by ..."
5. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1857)
"... his way into the vestry, and dressing himself in the robes of the priest, took
his place in one of the confessionals of the church to hear penitents. ..."
6. The Antiquarian and Architectural Year Book for (1845)
"confessionals IN ENGLISH CHURCHES AND CHURCH HOUSES. Certain small apertures
communicating from the cemetery through the lower part of the chancel wall, ..."
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