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Definition
feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong; or a person who does such
- Is there no reality in the penitence thus sealed and witnessed by good works?Chapter 17 -- The Pastor and his Parishioner (27% in)
penitence = feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong
- This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath.Chapter 5 -- Hester at her Needle (60% in)
- If they would serve their fellowmen, let them do it by making manifest the power and reality of conscience, in constraining them to penitential self-abasement!Chapter 10 -- The Leech and his Patient (42% in)
- Was it but the mockery of penitence?Chapter 12 -- The Minister's Vigil (7% in)
- There would have been no scandal, indeed, nor peril to the holy whiteness of the clergyman's good fame, had she visited him in his own study, where many a penitent, ere now, had confessed sins of perhaps as deep a dye as the one betokened by the scarlet letter.Chapter 16 -- A Forest Walk (5% in)
- Of penitence, there has been none!Chapter 17 -- The Pastor and his Parishioner (28% in)
- Here had been her sin; here, her sorrow; and here was yet to be her penitence.Chapter 24 -- Conclusion (77% in)
There are no more uses of "penitent" in The Scarlet Letter.
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