[f. as prec. + -IST.]

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  1.  One who makes confession.

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1827.  Bentham, Rationale Evid., Wks. 1843, VII. 30. Physical and involuntary symptoms of fear, betrayed by the confessionalist upon an occasion specified.

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  2.  ‘A confessor, one who sits in the confessional.’

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1846.  Worcester cites Boucher.

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  3.  = CONFESSIONALIAN sb.

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