Showing or constituting penance.
1 This was the principle of the penitential discipline of the ante-Nicene period.
2 The monks, in hoarse tones and monotonous harmonics, chanted the penitential psalms.
3 The Lord vouchsafed at last to intermit the penitential task of suffering.
4 He cannot even command the price of a penitential three-fingers of rye.
5 Even the confessionals looked jaunty, with floral swags decorating their penitential profiles.
6 Living with her in recent years has been a penitential exercise.
7 Thus the whole penitential machinery of the Church was set aside.
8 The branches of the trees lash one another like penitential dryades.
9 Then she began to recite the greatest of the penitential psalms.
10 The dates of this series of penitential sonnets are not known.
11 This desire had never been completely extinguished for Janine on Hurrapelle's penitential bench.
12 Therefore, a long time passed before he approached the penitential robe, and said:
13 The penitential act means, youth put behind us, and a steady course ahead.
14 Paul's letter to the Romans and the penitential Psalms were explained.
15 A low, penitential groan from Deacon Shadwell followed this accusing illustration.
16 If she's made up her mind to be penitential - penitential she 'll be!
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