confessioneel
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French confessionnel. Equivalent to confessie + -eel.
Pronunciation edit
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˌkɔn.fɛ.ʃoːˈneːl/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: con‧fes‧si‧o‧neel
- Rhymes: -eːl
Adjective edit
confessioneel (comparative confessioneler, superlative confessioneelst)
- linked to a particular religious denomination, confessional
Inflection edit
| Declension of confessioneel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | confessioneel | |||
| inflected | confessionele | |||
| comparative | confessioneler | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | confessioneel | confessioneler | het confessioneelst het confessioneelste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | confessionele | confessionelere | confessioneelste |
| n. sing. | confessioneel | confessioneler | confessioneelste | |
| plural | confessionele | confessionelere | confessioneelste | |
| definite | confessionele | confessionelere | confessioneelste | |
| partitive | confessioneels | confessionelers | — | |
Noun edit
confessioneel m (plural confessionelen, diminutive confessioneeltje n)
- (politics, Christianity) adherent or member of an explicitly religious political party
- (historical, Protestantism) orthodox Protestant fixated on creedal rectitude