All 5 Uses of
penitent
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Send one of your men, disguised as a penitent friar, and I will give it to him.†
Chpt 33-34 *
- "Excellency," said a servant, opening the door, "a man in the dress of a penitent wishes to speak to you."†
Chpt 35-36
- A brotherhood of penitents, clothed from head to foot in robes of gray sackcloth, with holes for the eyes, and holding in their hands lighted tapers, appeared first; the chief marched at the head.†
Chpt 35-36
- Behind the penitents came a man of vast stature and proportions.†
Chpt 35-36
- Yet perhaps if I had found you humble and penitent, I might have prevented Benedetto from killing you; but I found you proud and blood-thirsty, and I left you in the hands of God.†
Chpt 83-84
Definition:
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(penitent) feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong; or a person who does such