Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds.
1 The most penitent of all was the deviser of the original idea.
2 In his prayers the penitent in his confession says to this day:
3 Page 168:-Oneof the confessors had a young penitent in the convent.
4 The penitent soul is absorbed in the thought of its own evil.
5 The penitent closes the prayer by another and still more earnest appeal:
6 Then at the penitent - form the Staff-Captain pointed the little one to Jesus.
7 But for my own share in the violation I was painfully penitent .
8 The penitent was sent for, and repeated his confession to the principal.
9 Suddenly realizing she had taken her deliverance for granted, Faith was penitent .
10 Therefore the innocent is more bound to give thanks than the penitent .
11 His experience of life had been longer than that of the penitent .
12 It only needed a beginning, and the penitent bench would be crowded.
13 Really, I am so penitent at the message I am bringing you.
14 Apparently it had the effect, for Lola returned to her penitent spouse.
15 The penitent was informed by his Jacobite friends that he was forgiven.
16 Sir Everard, penitent and remorseful, strove to make his peace in vain.
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