Sample Sentences for
penitent
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    ...brought here to be penitent, because this is a Penitentiary and you are supposed to repent while in it,  (source)
    penitent = feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong
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    "Yes, please, but I never will again," and he went down upon his knees, with a penitent clasping of hands, and a face full of mischief, mirth, and triumph.  (source)
    penitent = expressing sorrow for having done wrong
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    Is there no good penitence but it be public?  (source)
    penitence = feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong
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    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
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    Mournful penitence appeared on every feature.  (source)
    penitence = sorrow for having done wrong
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    As it turns out, though, betrayal can also breed penitents, shrewd minor politicians, and ghosts.  (source)
    penitents = people expressing sorrow for having done wrong
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    ...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
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    TYRONE Protests penitently.†  (source)
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    To the rabbis I will accuse you of impenitence; to her—†  (source)
    standard 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.
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    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)
    standard 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.
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    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)
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    once in September, 1895, penitentially alert and shamefast in the City "calaboose";†  (source)
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    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)
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