All 7 Uses of
penitent
in
Siddhartha
- — But where were the Brahmans, where the priests, where the wise men or penitents, who had succeeded in not just knowing this deepest of all knowledge but also to live it?†
Chpt 1penitents = people expressing sorrow for having done wrong
- Silently, he stood there in the rainy season, from his hair the water was dripping over freezing shoulders, over freezing hips and legs, and the penitent stood there, until he could not feel the cold in his shoulders and legs any more, until they were silent, until they were quiet.†
Chpt 2
- But as a young man, I followed the penitents, lived in the forest, suffered of heat and frost, learned to hunger, taught my body to become dead.†
Chpt 8penitents = people expressing sorrow for having done wrong
- Was it not this what he used to intend to kill in his ardent years as a penitent?
Chpt 8 *penitent = someone feeling and expressing remorse for misdeeds (sorrow for having done wrong)
- Now Siddhartha also got some idea of why he had fought this self in vain as a Brahman, as a penitent.†
Chpt 8
- And he remembered how he, a long time ago, as a young man, had forced his father to let him go to the penitents, how he had bed his farewell to him, how he had gone and had never come back.†
Chpt 11penitents = people expressing sorrow for having done wrong
- Quoth Siddhartha: "You know, my dear, that I already as a young man, in those days when we lived with the penitents in the forest, started to distrust teachers and teachings and to turn my back to them.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong; or a person who does such