a private place in a church where a priest listens to people making confessions (教堂内的)告解室,告解亭,忏悔室 Oxford Collocations DictionaryConfessional is used before these nouns:- lyrics
Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective): the adjective from confession + -al; the noun via French from Italian confessionale, from medieval Latin, neuter of confessionalis, from Latin confessio(n-), from confiteri ‘acknowledge’, from con- (expressing intensive force) + fateri ‘declare, avow’.