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penitence
abject apology, attrition, confession, degradation, grief, lustration, penitential act, qualm, remorse, ruth, self-accusation, sorrowfulness
Definition
n.
remorse for your past conduct
Last update: September 21, 2015
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She is feeling
penitence
for what she has done to me.
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But in that time of reckoning will come reflection,
penitence
.
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"Now of his
penitence
."
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"Why this access of
penitence
for bygone crimes."
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Prayer and
penitence
have too often a tendency to kick the beam when fear ceases to weight the balance.
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He looked crestfallen, his kindly and well-favoured countenance being overspread by an expression of disarmingly innocent
penitence
.
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He sobbed aloud at last in his
penitence
, and his heart went back to the night of the wreck.
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There was a reason why Chiltern's letters had not arrived, and great were Honora's self-reproach and
penitence
.
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It was characteristic of him that his
penitence
was never spoken: nor did he exhibit
penitence
.
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'It is never too late,' said Rose, 'for
penitence
and atonement.'
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Leave me alone with God and my
penitence
, and may the Lord have mercy on you.
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