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Definition

feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense

The expression, an act of contrition, refers to a prayer or other action taken due to a feeling of regret at having done wrong.

She apologized, but didn't seem genuinely contrite.

contrite = sorry

Even after the jury found her guilty, she showed no sign of contrition.

contrition = feeling sorrow for having done something wrong

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

"I'm awfully sorry I made fun of your hair, Anne," he whispered contritely.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables

contritely = with a feeling sorrow or regret for having done something wrong

"It was my fault," Rocher said, stepping forward, sounding contrite.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

contrite = feeling regret for a fault or offense

...your evident contrition, and sense of shame; all lead me to believe that you might yet be reclaimed.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

contrition = sorrow or regret for a fault or offense

Instead of hating you I could, I think, mourn for and pity you, if you were contrite, and would confess all.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native

contrite = feeling sorrow or regret (for a fault or offense)

Alas! my very dear brother, I should like to settle down to a better life. I come to you full of contrition, I am penitent. I make my confession.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

contrition = sorrow or regret for a fault or offense

Perhaps she too would have reacted like her mother, unable to restrain the impulse to scold until the child acted beaten and contrite.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter

contrite = sorry (feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense)

He smiled, looking contrite, a kid with his hand caught in the cookie jar.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian

contrite = feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense

...the tender sadness of a contrite heart, broken, at last, beneath its own weight of sin?
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables

contrite = feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense

Not once in the course of these proceedings did this man show the least contrition.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger

contrition = sorrow or regret for a fault or offense

Therefore, sire, your Majesty sees that they are come, quite contrite and repentant, to offer you their excuses.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

contrite = sorry for a fault

Contrition is the heavy and grievous sorrow that a man receiveth in his heart for his sins,
Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Canterbury Tales

contrition = sorrow or regret for a fault or offense

he didn't look contrite or guilty,
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree

contrite = feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense

I glare at Peeta and he tries to look contrite.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

contrite = sorry for his offense

Kate looked at the sand, contrite, and I almost regretted my sharpness.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn

contrite = feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense

Aureliano scolded him like a child and he adopted a contrite air.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

contrite = feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense

He dipped his head and tried to look contrite.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon

contrite = sorrowful for a fault or offense

Contrite, he copped a plea to a single felony count and ... began serving a four-month sentence in Sioux Falls.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

contrite = feeling sorrow or regret for an offense

For what it was worth, he seemed genuinely contrite.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song

contrite = sorry for a fault or offense

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