All 11 Uses of
penitent
in
Middlemarch
- Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?†
Chpt 2 *
- In fact, he had it in his thought to tell her that she ought not to have received young Ladislaw in his absence: but he abstained, partly from the sense that it would be ungracious to bring a new complaint in the moment of her penitent acknowledgment, partly because he wanted to avoid further agitation of himself by speech, and partly because he was too proud to betray that jealousy of disposition which was not so exhausted on his scholarly compeers that there was none to spare in…†
Chpt 2
- Fred followed her with his eyes, hoping that they would meet hers, and in that way find access for his imploring penitence.†
Chpt 3
- He did not know how much penitence there was in the sorrow.†
Chpt 3
- She nursed him, she read to him, she anticipated his wants, and was solicitous about his feelings; but there had entered into the husband's mind the certainty that she judged him, and that her wifely devotedness was like a penitential expiation of unbelieving thoughts—was accompanied with a power of comparison by which himself and his doings were seen too luminously as a part of things in general.†
Chpt 4
- Then I am a brute," said Lydgate, caressing her penitently.†
Chpt 5
- In three minutes the Vicar was on horseback again, having gone magnanimously through a duty much harder than the renunciation of whist, or even than the writing of penitential meditations.†
Chpt 5
- Five minutes before, the expanse of his life had been submerged in its evening sunshine which shone backward to its remembered morning: sin seemed to be a question of doctrine and inward penitence, humiliation an exercise of the closet, the bearing of his deeds a matter of private vision adjusted solely by spiritual relations and conceptions of the divine purposes.†
Chpt 5
- But Mr. Bulstrode had to-night followed the order of his emotions; he entertained no doubt that the opportunity for restitution had come, and he had an overpowering impulse towards the penitential expression by which he was deprecating chastisement.†
Chpt 6
- He felt that he was performing a striking piece of scrupulosity in the judgment of his auditor, and a penitential act in the eyes of God.†
Chpt 6
- He had been prepared for a scene of self-abasement, but his intense pride and his habit of supremacy overpowered penitence, and even dread, when this young man, whom he had meant to benefit, turned on him with the air of a judge.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(penitent) feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong; or a person who does such