Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A priest who hears confessions; a confessor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
confesses - noun A
priest who hearsconfession - noun An advocate of
confessionalism
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Examples
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This book is somewhat representative of the "confessionalist" stance found in the previous writers.
Triablogue 2009
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Whereas for an early confessionalist like Sexton, mental illness had its objective reality, for Graham schizophrenia is inherent in language itself.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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Whereas for an early confessionalist like Sexton, mental illness had its objective reality, for Graham schizophrenia is inherent in language itself.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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Various confessionalist movements em - phasized radically the differences between theology and contemporary philosophy.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID LARRIMORE HOLLAND 1968
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Germany experienced a similar confessionalist revival, and in America, Charles Hodge at Princeton illustrates the conservative response.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID LARRIMORE HOLLAND 1968
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_Observer_, designated Reynolds as a strict confessionalist, Reynolds, in the _Observer_ of October 2, 1857, protested that he was a General
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This report should serve as a model for how conservative confessionalist denominations handle the issue of race self-critically.
The Institute 2010
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There seems to be no perspective from which the confessionalist has anything to contribute to the resolution of the problem.
Heidelblog R. Scott Clark 2010
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Beyond the staticism provided by Lebanon's confessionalist system, the entrenched interests of family dynasties and big big bucks are perpetuated in a mafia-like manner.
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As I see it, as Reformed confessionalist who accepts the confession of the Reformed churches my friend R.C. is a minister, in good standing, in a confessional Reformed church.
Heidelblog 2009
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