All 5 Uses

penitent
in
Measure for Measure
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I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience, And try your penitence, if it be sound Or hollowly put on.†
Scene 2.3
Sir, I will serve him; for I do find your hangman is a more penitent trade than your bawd; he doth oftener ask forgiveness.†
Scene 4.2
Hath he borne himself penitently in prison?
Scene 4.2 *

penitently = with remorse for misdeeds (sorrow at having done wrong)
Shave the head and tie the beard; and say it was the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his death.†
Scene 4.2
I am sorry that such sorrow I procure: And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart That I crave death more willingly than mercy; 'Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it.†
Scene 5.1

Definitions:

(1) (penitent)
feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong; or a person who does such
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)