All 3 Uses
contrite
in
The Good Soldier
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- You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.†
Part 1 *contrite = feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- What had happened on the day of our jaunt to the ancient city of M——had been this: Leonora, who had been even then filled with pity and contrition for the poor child, on returning to our hotel had gone straight to Mrs Maidan's room.†
Part 1contrition = sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- Leonora, with panic growing and with contrition very large in her heart, visited every one of the public rooms of the hotel—the dining-room, the lounge, the schreibzimmer, the winter garden.†
Part 1
Definitions:
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(1)
(contrite) feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)