penitent

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1. penitent - Noun

2. penitent - Adjective

Meaning

Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.

One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.

One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.

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Depictions of the Penitent Magdalen became enormously popular in preaching and art (see above). Source: Internet

Since all his acts were known, he had no secrets to reveal, and so he decided to write to the Tsar, "You want my confession; but you must know that a penitent sinner is not obliged to implicate or reveal the misdeeds of others. Source: Internet

If cocktails didn’t work—or if the penitent sufferer could not bear the thought of that option—a pharmacopeia of nostrums was available at every Cincinnati pharmacy. Source: Internet

But hours later, when I woke up hungover and penitent, I was filled with regret and embarrassment and logged on to change it back. Source: Internet

Now, I look back and think of all the things that a penitent sinner might think of on their death bed. Source: Internet

Or would we have a body of believers that, instead of simultaneously worshipping and judging its spiritual leaders, lifted them up on penitent and compassionate prayers and banded around them in accountability and care? Source: Internet

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