(noun.) a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions.
珍妮特编辑
双语例句
The impulse under which I acted, the mood controlling me, were similar to the impulse and the mood which had induced me to visit the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
After a spacebreathless and spent in prayer, a penitent approached the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Awful crimes, no doubt; but he did not tell me what: there, you knowthe seal of the confessional checked his garrulity, and my curiosity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Well, then, said Bois-Guilbert, I will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
I could find none of these in closet or chamber, so I went and sought them in church and confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
The priest within the confessional never turned his eyes to regard mehe only quietly inclined his ear to my lips. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Emanuel drew nigh month by month--the sliding panel of the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Here, however, in this land of convents and confessionals, such a presence as his was not to be suffered with impunity in a pensionnat de demoiselles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.