confessionals

Noun

confessional (plural confessionals)

1. A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
   • The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter XI

   Synonyms:

   confession booth

2. A confession.
   • When a 35-year-old Bill Clinton, famously the nation’s youngest former governor, set out in 1982 to reclaim the job he had lost two years earlier, he began with a remarkable televised confessional.
     “My daddy never had to whip me twice for the same thing,” Mr. Clinton told Arkansans in a campaign...2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times
3. (reality television) A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.
   • These characters behave as crassly as they do in large part because producers of shows such as The Bachelor deprive them of all contact with the outside world ([…]) and ply them with alcohol, then goad them to unleash their petty grievances in filmed "confessionals".2004, Ms. Magazine, volume 14

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