different between confession vs confessionally

English

Alternative forms

• confessione (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English confessioun, from Old French confession, from Latin c?nfessi?, c?nfessi?nem (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”). Doublet of confessio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?f???n/

Noun

confession (countable and uncountable, plural confessions)

1. The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
2. A formal document providing such an admission.

3. (Christianity) The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.

   I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
4. Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
5. A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.

Derived terms

• confessional
• nonconfession

Related terms

• confess

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French confession, from Latin c?nfessi?, c?nfessi?nem (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.f?.sj??/

Noun

confession f (plural confessions)

1. confession (admittance of having done something, good, bad or neutral)
2. confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution)
3. creed (a declaration of one's religious faith)

Derived terms

• donner le bon Dieu sans confession

Descendants

• ? German: Konfession
• ? Romanian: confesiune

Further reading

• “confession” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

confession (plural confessions)

1. alternative form of confessioun

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin c?nfessi?.

Noun

confession f (plural confessions)

1. confession

Related terms

• confessar

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nfessi?, c?nfessi?nem.

Noun

confession f (oblique plural confessions, nominative singular confession, nominative plural confessions)

1. confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a clergyman for absolution)

Descendants

• French: confession
  • ? German: Konfession
  • ? Romanian: confesiune
• ? Middle English: confessioun, confession, confessyon, confessyone, confessyown
  • English: confession

English

Etymology

From confessional +? -ly.

Adverb

confessionally (comparative more confessionally, superlative most confessionally)

1. With regard to religious confession; denominationally, religiously.
   • 2011, Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement, 21 Sep 2011:

     Koslofsky speculates that it was driven by the need to find new sources of authority in a confessionally fragmented age.