penitentin a sentence
-
•
When her anger passed, she was penitent.penitent = sorry for having done wrong
-
•
If she's truly penitent, you should forgive her.
-
•
Following a stone wall in the dark, wrapped in his blanket, kneeling in the ashes like a penitent. (source)penitent = someone expressing sorrow for having done wrong
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
When Langdon had first seen The Little Mermaid, he had actually gasped aloud when he noticed that the painting in Ariel's underwater home was none other than seventeenth-century artist Georges de la Tour's The Penitent Magdalene— (source)Penitent = feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong
-
•
sitting here with her head bowed over the sewing machine like a penitent, (source)penitent = a person feeling sorrow for having done wrong
-
•
"Sorry," Alice said, not sounding in the least bit penitent. (source)penitent = sorry for having done wrong
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 10 word variations
-
•
He stood sober and penitent, his hands in the pockets of his trousers, as he stared right at Diana. (source)penitent = feeling sorrow for having done wrong
-
•
Is there no good penitence but it be public? (source)penitence = feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong
-
•
As it turns out, though, betrayal can also breed penitents, shrewd minor politicians, and ghosts. (source)penitents = people expressing sorrow for having done wrong
-
•
...and she carried a candle in the penitential parades, side by side with ladies who had nothing to regret but an outburst of temper and a furtive glance into Descartes. (source)penitential = showing sorrow for having done something wrong
-
•
...I lay there, penitently whispering, "O God bless him!" (source)penitently = feeling remorse (sorrow) for misdeeds
-
•
To the rabbis I will accuse you of impenitence; to her—† (source)impenitence = not sorry for having done wrongstandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impenitence means not and reverses the meaning of penitence. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
-
•
But they considered the lama's presence a perfect safeguard against all consequences, and impenitently brought Kim of their best—even to a drink of chang—the barley-beer that comes from Ladakh-way.† (source)impenitently = not with sorrow and regret for having done wrongstandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impenitently means not and reverses the meaning of penitently. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
-
•
On the present festive occasion he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials.† (source)
-
•
At Hyde Park Corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own.† (source)
-
•
Of which men should gladly hearken and inquire with all their hearts, to wit what is penitence, and whence it is called penitence, and in what manner, and in how many manners, be the actions or workings of penitence, and how many species there be of penitences, and what things appertain and behove to penitence, and what things disturb penitence.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)