Sample Sentences for
penitent
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    sitting here with her head bowed over the sewing machine like a penitent,  (source)
    penitent = a person feeling sorrow for having done wrong
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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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    Was it not this what he used to intend to kill in his ardent years as a penitent?  (source)
    penitent = someone feeling and expressing remorse for misdeeds (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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    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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    The fellow was still alive, which was a disappointment, in one way; and yet it was pleasant to see him, all in penitential plasters.  (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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