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Meanings of penitential in английском

Showing or constituting penance.

Remorse.

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Examples for "penitentiary"
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The effect is somewhere between Sixties modern, Louis Quinze and state penitentiary.
The Guardian
2
The great majority of the criminals in the penitentiary are young men.
The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...
3
The Atlanta penitentiary claims to be the most humane in the world.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
4
A similar fraud was attempted at Columbus in sight of the penitentiary.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet / ...
5
The Missouri penitentiary is located in the southern suburbs of Jefferson City.
The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...

Penitential.

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Usage of penitential in английском
1
This was the principle of the penitential discipline of the ante-Nicene period.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
2
The monks, in hoarse tones and monotonous harmonics, chanted the penitential psalms.
Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome
3
The Lord vouchsafed at last to intermit the penitential task of suffering.
The Cathedral
4
He cannot even command the price of a penitential three-fingers of rye.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
5
Even the confessionals looked jaunty, with floral swags decorating their penitential profiles.
The Irish Times
6
Living with her in recent years has been a penitential exercise.
The sealed letter
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Thus the whole penitential machinery of the Church was set aside.
The Church and the Empire / Being an Outline of the History of t...
8
The branches of the trees lash one another like penitential dryades.
Pictures of Sweden
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Then she began to recite the greatest of the penitential psalms.
The White Sister
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The dates of this series of penitential sonnets are not known.
The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella;...
11
This desire had never been completely extinguished for Janine on Hurrapelle's penitential bench.
The eye of the leopard
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Therefore, a long time passed before he approached the penitential robe, and said:
The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance
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The penitential act means, youth put behind us, and a steady course ahead.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5
14
Paul's letter to the Romans and the penitential Psalms were explained.
Luther and the Reformation: / The Life-Springs of Our Liberties
15
A low, penitential groan from Deacon Shadwell followed this accusing illustration.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
16
If she's made up her mind to be penitential-penitentialshe'll be!
The Lamp of Fate
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