About The Word Penitence
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Penitence
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What's The Definition Of Penitence?
[n] remorse for your past conduct
Synonyms | Synonyms for Penitence: penance | repentance Related Terms | Find terms related to Penitence: abject apology | acknowledgment | anguish | apology | asceticism | attrition | breast-beating | change of heart | cold purgatorial fires | compunction | confession | contriteness | contrition | Day of Atonement | deathbed repentance | debasement | degradation | distress | excuse | fasting | flagellation | grief | hair shirt | heartfelt apology | humbling | humiliation | lustration | maceration | mea culpa | mortification | penance | penitential act | penitential exercise | penitently | purgation | purgatory | qualm | reformation | regret | regretfulness | regrets | remorse | remorsefulness | repentance | rue | ruefulness | ruth | sackcloth and ashes | sadness | saeta | scruple | self-accusation | self-punishment | self-reproach | shame | sorrow | sorrowfulness | wearing a hairshirt | Yom Kippur See Also | compunction | remorse | self-reproach Penitence In Webster's Dictionary \Pen"i*tence\, n. [F. p['e]nitence, L. paenitentia.
See {Penitent}, and cf. {Penance}.]
The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition
of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance;
contrition. ``Penitence of his old guilt.'' --Chaucer.
Death is deferred, and penitenance has room To
mitigate, if not reverse, the doom. --Dryden.
Syn: Repentance; contrition; compunction.
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