All 3 Uses
penitent
in
Orange Is the New Black
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- This was the penitence that sometimes happens in the penitentiary.†
p. 186.1 *
- This was the best way to be penitent, to pour my energy into the communal meal that we would all be sharing soon, even though most of us would rather be someplace else.†
p. 241.6
- I recognized what I was capable of doing and how my choices affected the people I was now missing; not only Larry and my family but all my fellow penitents whom I had crossed paths with in this year, this season in hell.†
p. 279.4penitents = people expressing sorrow for having done wrong
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)