Both Uses of
penitent
in
1984 by Orwell
- I saw them gradually worn down, whimpering, grovelling, weeping — and in the end it was not with pain or fear, only with penitence.†
p. 255..9 *
- Always we shall have the heretic here at our mercy, screaming with pain, broken up, contemptible — and in the end utterly penitent, saved from himself, crawling to our feet of his own accord.†
p. 268..6
Definition:
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(penitent) feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong; or a person who does such