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confessionalise

confessionalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of confessionalize.

Meaning of confessionalize

Verb

confessionalize (third-person singular simple present confessionalizes, present participle confessionalizing, simple past and past participle confessionalized)

  1. To fix religious beliefs into set categories of denomination or dogma.

Forms of confessionalise

third-person singular presentconfessionalises
present participleconfessionalising
past participleconfessionalised
pastconfessionalised

Origin of confessionalise

From confessional + -ise.

Words formed from confessionalise

Questions about confessionalise

What is confessionalise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Confessionalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of confessionalize.

Words near confessionalise in the dictionary

  1. confessional
  2. confessional chair
  3. confessional chairs
  4. confessional debugging
  5. confessional state
  6. confessionalise
  7. confessionalised
  8. confessionalises
  9. confessionalising
  10. confessionalism
  11. confessionalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: confessionalise (page history and authors); confessionalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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