confessionally

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English

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Etymology

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From confessional +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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confessionally (comparative more confessionally, superlative most confessionally)

  1. With regard to religious confession; denominationally, religiously.
    • 2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement:
      Koslofsky speculates that it was driven by the need to find new sources of authority in a confessionally fragmented age.