All 4 Uses of
penitent
in
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene by Greene
- penitence was the fruit of long training and discipline:
Chpt 2.2 *penitence = feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong
- There had been a continuous stream of penitents from eight to ten - two hours of the worst evil a small place like this could produce after three years.†
Chpt 3.1
- The old woman prattled on and on, while the penitents stirred restlessly in the next stall and the horse whinnied, prattled of abstinence days broken, of evening prayers curtailed.†
Chpt 3.1
- When the last penitent had gone away he walked back across the yard to the bungalow; he could see the lamp burning, and Miss Lehr knitting, and he could smell the grass in the paddock, wet with the first rains.†
Chpt 3.1
Definition:
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(penitent) feeling or expressing sorrow for having done wrong; or a person who does such