All 3 Uses
contrite
in
Long Day's Journey into Night
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- She adds quickly with a detached contrition.†
Act 2 *contrition = sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- TYRONE Has shrunk back in his chair under this attack, his guilty contrition greater than his anger.†
Act 4
- You let hick town boobs flatter you with bunk about your future— Abruptly his tone changes to disgusted contrition.†
Act 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(contrite) feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)