All 3 Uses of
contrite
in
Hard Times
- "And I said, Miss;" here Sissy fairly sobbed as confessing with extreme contrition to her greatest error; "I said it was nothing."
Chpt 1.9 *contrition = sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- Such little actions, slight in another man, were very noticeable in him; and his daughter received them as if they had been words of contrition.†
Chpt 3.1
- Since the Pegler affair, this gentlewoman had covered her pity for Mr. Bounderby with a veil of quiet melancholy and contrition.†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
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(contrite) feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense