All 3 Uses
contrite
in
The Power and the Glory, by Cooke
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- "There!" she cried in a contrite voice.†
Chpt 7 *contrite = feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- There was a world of reproach in his face, and Johnnie answered it with eyes of such shame and contrition as convinced him that she knew well the degradation of what she was doing.†
Chpt 16contrition = sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- "Would you mind if I—" he began, and broke off to say contritely, "I'll go back with you if you'd rather."†
Chpt 24contritely = with a feeling of sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
Definitions:
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(1)
(contrite) feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)