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Meaning of "confessionary" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFESSIONARY

confessionary  [kənˈfɛʃ ənərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFESSIONARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Confessionary is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CONFESSIONARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of confessionary in the English dictionary

The definition of confessionary in the dictionary is of or involving the confession of sins.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONFESSIONARY


cardiopulmonary
ˌkɑːdɪəʊˈpʌlmənərɪ
cautionary
ˈkɔːʃənərɪ
commissionary
kəˈmɪʃ ənərɪ
confectionary
kənˈfɛkʃənərɪ
confectionery
kənˈfɛkʃənərɪ
conversionary
kənˈvɜːʃ ənərɪ
convulsionary
kənˈvʌlʃ ənərɪ
coronary
ˈkɒrənərɪ
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ˈdɪkʃənərɪ
discretionary
dɪˈskrɛʃənərɪ
divisionary
dɪˈvɪʒ ənərɪ
evolutionary
ˌiːvəˈluːʃənərɪ
expansionary
ɪkˈspænʃənərɪ
missionary
ˈmɪʃənərɪ
precautionary
prɪˈkɔːʃənərɪ
pulmonary
ˈpʌlmənərɪ
revolutionary
ˌrɛvəˈluːʃənərɪ
stationary
ˈsteɪʃənərɪ
stationery
ˈsteɪʃənərɪ
visionary
ˈvɪʒənərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFESSIONARY

conferval
confervoid
confess
confessable
confessant
confessedly
confession
confession of faith
confessional
confessional television
confessionalism
confessionalist
confessionally
confessor
confessoress
confessorship
confest
confestly
confetti
confetto

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFESSIONARY

accretionary
coevolutionary
contractionary
counter-revolutionary
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deflationary
diversionary
exclusionary
functionary
geostationary
illusionary
inflationary
lectionary
nonstationary
ordinary
post-Revolutionary
probationary
reactionary
recessionary
reversionary
revisionary

Synonyms and antonyms of confessionary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «confessionary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONFESSIONARY

Find out the translation of confessionary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of confessionary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confessionary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

忏悔
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

confesionario
570 millions of speakers

English

confessionary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

confessionary
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

confessionary
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

признательных
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

confessionário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

confessionary
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

de confession
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengakuan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

confessionary
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

confessionary
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

confessionary
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pengakuan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

confessionary
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாவ மன்னிப்பு சார்ந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कबुलीजबाब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

confessionary
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

confessionale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

confessionary
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вдячних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

confessionary
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πνευματικού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

confessionary
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

confessionary
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

confessionary
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of confessionary

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFESSIONARY»

The term «confessionary» is used very little and occupies the 170.050 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFESSIONARY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about confessionary

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFESSIONARY»

Discover the use of confessionary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confessionary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Security Unbound: Enacting Democratic Limits
In this complex site, collective notions of danger and suspicion are worked onto individual bodies and through confessionary narrations in which individuals have to 'confess' why they are coming to the US. Salter speaks of 'a confessionary ...
Jef Huysmans, 2014
2
Do Tigers Confess?: An Interdisciplinary Study of ...
For over three decades, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought a gruesome war for independent statehood against the majoritarian Sinhalese Government of Sri Lanka.
Chandrasekaram Visakesa, 2012
3
Without Authority
priest held confession in the confessionary at the appointed time. The confession guests met at the church where the ceremony began with a hymn and a confession prayer read aloud by the parish clerk. Afterwards, if there was room enough, ...
Robert L. Perkins, 2007
4
The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide
... three of them anonimous manuscripts): the grammar and confessionary by Bernardo de Lugo (1619); the manuscript with grammar, vocabulary, catechism and confessionary preserved in the National Colombian Library in Bogotá ( published ...
Lyle Campbell, Verónica Grondona, 2012
5
The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral
Robert Willis. level with the rest of the pavement, and the openings into the confessionary walled up, thus reducing the front of it to a plain vertical face. The plan therefore which, as before said, was taken in the sixteenth century, represents this ...
Robert Willis, 1845
6
A Companion to Border Studies
Namely, in the extraction of information via biometry, border security relies heavily on what Mark Salter, drawing on Michel Foucault, calls a “confessionary complex.” As a “mechanism for the creation of the modern subject by a modern state,” ...
Thomas M. Wilson, Hastings Donnan, 2012
7
The Everything Jewish Wedding Book: Mazel tov! From the ...
The other prayer that is formally added to the amidah is the viduy, the traditional confessionary prayer. Even if one is not fasting, the viduy prayer should still be said and this time taken for reflection and return. Make sure to pack a siddur, ...
Rabbi Hyim Shafner, 2008
8
Good Morning Mr. Freud
This confessionary text Is in essence an attempt at Self-analysis. Its external joints Loose and logically undefined. People, events, references, All deliberately vague . . . All, in the mystical dimension of Dream Which, being outside reality, ...
Nestor Matsas, 2006
9
Seeking the Favor of God: The origins of penitential prayer ...
As greenberg states: “The practice of modeling confessionary prayer [is] after the pattern of interhuman confessionary speech—a simple natural pattern, corresponding to the dynamics of the transaction and therefore known to everyone.” 5 The ...
Mark J. Boda, Daniel K. Falk, Rodney Alan Werline, 2006
10
Global Surveillance Policing
Liminal – confessionary complex Foucault is extremely useful in examining the ways in which the individual comes to police him/herself as part of the machinery of airport security. He discusses the growth of the confessionary complex, ...
Elia Zureik, Mark Salter, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFESSIONARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term confessionary is used in the context of the following news items.
1
MQM leader Tariq Mir statement is not a police document: London …
LONDON: Spokesman of London Metropolitan Police Alan Crawford said on Tuesday that MQM leader Tariq Mir's confessionary statement ... «PakistanHerald, Jul 15»
2
Kogi Arrest: Arm Robbery, Kidnapping Suspect implicate Idris Ozi …
... Mallam Abdulkareem was equally arrested and detained by the Police too owing to confessionary statement by one Arm robbery suspect that ... «Eagle Reporters, Jun 15»
3
Ontario: We Have Supplied all Fuel Cargoes to NNPC
... of its officials, as at going to press, invited to the DSS for any enquiry, so a confessionary statement could not have been obtained from us. «THISDAY Live, Jun 15»
4
Tom Baxter to play Róisín Dubh
The end result was 2013's The Uncarved Block – Part One which showcased his masterful guitar-playing and the raw, confessionary, depth of ... «Galway Advertiser, May 15»
5
Bringing the Brat Pack to the finish line
"Back then my recovery time was four hours and I was good to go," Kanaan says with a confessionary chuckle. "Now my recovery time is four ... «ESPN, May 15»
6
The Fearless Nikki Glaser
In that confessionary burst, Glaser's overwhelming appeal is obvious. She's not afraid to get personal. Onstage, her comedy is just as lightning ... «The Portland Mercury, Apr 15»
7
Could spring signal a turnaround for the dry bulk market?
... and earnings conference calls tend to range from confessionary litanies to Christmas lists on what would turn the market around. There have ... «Marine Trader Online, Mar 15»
8
'I want justice over my son's murder'
He said he had made a confessionary statement where he admitted to stealing the money and had told the police that the money was still intact ... «The Guardian Nigeria, Mar 15»
9
Faith-fueled forces of hatred: Obama's religion speech was troubling …
... King Abdullah has visited, thus reminding us that the plague of religion in American public life can be exotic and multi-confessionary. What ... «Salon, Feb 15»
10
Lotte becomes the main shareholder of Bibica
Pan Pacific Corporation (PAN) said on February 4 that its subsidiaries now hold a 24.58% stake at the local big confessionary producer Bibica ... «VietNamNet Bridge, Feb 15»

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