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Penitent
Definitions
- 1 Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt.
"Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite."
- 2 Doing penance.
"[…] But we that know what ’tis to faſt and pray, / Are penitent for your default to day."
- 1 feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds wordnet
- 1 One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
- 2 (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) wordnet
- 3 One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
"Wamba, who defeated the Saracens in an attempt upon Spain, was deprived of the crown, because he had been clothed in the habit of a penitent, while labouring under the influence of poison, administered by the ambitious Erviga!"
- 4 One under the direction of a confessor.
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin paenitēns, poenitēns (“penitent”), present participle of paeniteō, poeniteō (“I cause to repent; I regret, repent”). Doublet of penitente.
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin paenitēns, poenitēns (“penitent”), present participle of paeniteō, poeniteō (“I cause to repent; I regret, repent”). Doublet of penitente.
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