All 10 Uses of
penitent
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Longfellow
- That which before had pleased me then displeased me; And penitent and confessing I surrendered, Ah woe is me!†
Canto 1.23-34 *
- True is it, who in contumacy dies Of Holy Church, though penitent at last, Must wait upon the outside this bank Thirty times told the time that he has been In his presumption, unless such decree Shorter by means of righteous prayers become.†
Canto 2.1-11
- Long since we all were slain by violence, And sinners even to the latest hour; Then did a light from heaven admonish us, So that, both penitent and pardoning, forth From life we issued reconciled to God, Who with desire to see Him stirs our hearts.†
Canto 2.1-11
- Peace I desired with God at the extreme Of my existence, and as yet would not My debt have been by penitence discharged, Had it not been that in remembrance held me Pier Pettignano in his holy prayers, Who out of charity was grieved for me.†
Canto 2.12-22
- If languid love to look on this attract you, Or in attaining unto it, this cornice, After just penitence, torments you for it.†
Canto 2.12-22
- God's lofty fiat would be violated, If Lethe should be passed, and if such viands Should tasted be, withouten any scot Of penitence, that gushes forth in tears."†
Canto 2.23-33
- Even as children silent in their shame Stand listening with their eyes upon the ground, And conscious of their fault, and penitent; So was I standing; and she said: "If thou In hearing sufferest pain, lift up thy beard And thou shalt feel a greater pain in seeing."†
Canto 2.23-33
- So pricked me then the thorn of penitence, That of all other things the one which turned me Most to its love became the most my foe.†
Canto 2.23-33
- And thus thinks not the present multitude Shut in by Adige and Tagliamento, Nor yet for being scourged is penitent.†
Canto 3.1-11
- He who comes next in the circumference Of which I speak, upon its highest arc, Did death postpone by penitence sincere; Now knoweth he that the eternal judgment Suffers no change, albeit worthy prayer Maketh below to-morrow of to-day.†
Canto 3.12-22
Definition:
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(penitent) feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong; or a person who does such