All 3 Uses
penitent
in
Dante's Purgatory — translated by Norton
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- We were of old all done to death by violence, and sinners up to the last hour; then light from Heaven made us mindful, so that both penitent and pardoning we issued forth from life, at peace with God, who fills our hearts with the desire to see him.†
Canto 1-11
- [2] Three times, in penitence for sins in thought, in word, and in deed†
Canto 1-11 *
- At the very end of my life I desired peace with God; and even yet my debt would not be lessened by penitence,[5] had it not been that Pier Pettinagno,[6] who out of charity was sorry for me, held me in memory in his holy prayers.†
Canto 12-22
Definitions:
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(1)
(penitent) feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong; or a person who does such
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)