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Definition
feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong; or a person who does such
- But I old men, penitent, leadenfooted, underdarkneath the night: mouth south: tomb womb.Episode 7 — Aeolus (66% in)
- Penitent thief.Episode 9 — Scylla And Charybdis (8% in)
There are no more uses of "penitent" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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