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- And now she was contrite.†
p. 32.9contrite = feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- He felt immediate contrition, seeing, in his mind's eye, her bewildered face, knowing how she wondered why her eldest son should cause, and appear to wish to cause her, so much pain.†
p. 277.8 *contrition = sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- She said, with a contrition absolutely false and murderous, "That's true.†
p. 280.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(contrite) feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)