All 6 Uses of
penitent
in
Bleak House
- It MAY be a very good sort of penitence in a vagabond, who has wasted the best time of his life, to go back then to decent people that he never was a credit to and live upon them, but it's not my sort.†
Chpt 19-21
- "In short, your ladyship," says Mr. Guppy like a meanly penitent thief, "the person I was to have had the letters of, has come to a sudden end, and—"†
Chpt 31-33 *
- "And that was like me!" observes the penitent trooper, shaking his head.†
Chpt 34-36
- I have seen all sorts, and I have seen you pretty often in season and out of season, abroad and at home, and I never see you so melancholy penitent.'†
Chpt 55-57
- 'Why, Mrs. Bagnet,' says George, 'it's because I AM melancholy and penitent both, this afternoon, that you see me so.'†
Chpt 55-57
- The debilitated cousin, more debilitated by the dreariness of the place, gets into a fearful state of depression, groaning under penitential sofa-pillows in his gunless hours and protesting that such fernal old jail's—nough t'sew fler up—frever.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(penitent) feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong; or a person who does such