Meanings
plural stools of repentance
- historicalSynonym of cuttystool (“seat in Scottish churches where offenders sat for public rebuke by the minister”).
Every Church at that time had three things, whatever else it wanted — the pulpit for the minister, the "lateran" (desk) for the precentor, and the "place or stool of repentance" for offenders.
1897, Publications: Church of Scotland. Presbytery of Alford, page xxxviSynonyms: cuttystool
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of cuttystool (“seat in Scottish churches where offenders sat for public rebuke by the minister”).
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