About The Word Penitential
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Penitential
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What's The Definition Of Penitential?
[adj] showing or constituting penance; "penitential tears"; "wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words"
[adj] of or relating to penitence or penance; "the Day of Atonement is the great penitential day of the Hebrew calendar" Synonyms | Synonyms for Penitential: penitent | repentant Related Terms | Find terms related to Penitential: abject | amendatory | apologetic | ascetic | atoning | balancing | cleansing | compensating | compensational | compensatory | compunctious | contrite | counteracting | counteractive | counterbalancing | countervailing | expiatory | humble | humbled | indemnificatory | lustral | lustrational | lustrative | melted | offsetting | penitent | penitentiary | piacular | propitiatory | purgative | purgatorial | purifying | reclamatory | recompensing | recompensive | rectifying | redeeming | redemptive | redressing | regretful | reparative | reparatory | repentant | repenting | restitutional | restitutive | restitutory | retaliatory | righting | satisfactional | sheepish | softened | sorry | squaring | touched See Also | Penitential In Webster's Dictionary \Pen`i*ten"tial\, a. [Cf. F. p['e]nitentiel.]
Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing
penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential
book; penitential tears. ``Penitential stripes.'' --Cowper.
Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can
not cleanse. --Sir W.
Scott.
\Pen`i*ten"tial\, n. (R. C. Ch.) A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also {penitential book}. |
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