Crossword-Solution: CONTRITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contrite | a. | Thoroughly bruised or broken. |
| Contrite | a. | Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. |
| Contrite | n. | A contrite person. |
| Contrite | v. | In a contrite manner. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CONTRITE | anagram | CORNETTI |
We have 30 clues for the answer “CONTRITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Trick rather obvious? Sorry! | 1 answer |
| Suffering remorse | 1 answer |
| Overcome by guilt | 1 answer |
| Mighty sorry. | 1 answer |
| Humbly penitent | 1 answer |
| Saying "Sorry," say | 2 answers |
| attritional | 3 answers |
| Feeling remorse | 4 answers |
| compunctious | 4 answers |
| pitying | 24 answers |
| Regretful | 28 answers |
| repentant | 29 answers |
| Penitent | 31 answers |
| grieved | 35 answers |
| apologetic | 37 answers |
| Hangdog | 48 answers |
| remorseful | 49 answers |
| sorrowing | 52 answers |
| Depressed | 57 answers |
| ACT of being caught | 58 answers |
| Sorry | 58 answers |
| grieving | 67 answers |
| Doleful. | 72 answers |
| unhappy | 73 answers |
| unfavourable | 75 answers |
| Adverse | 75 answers |
| Touching | 75 answers |
| sorrowful | 76 answers |
| Sympathetic | 77 answers |
| Melancholy | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTRITE (5)
What better can we do, then to the place Repairing where he judg’d us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears VVatering the ground, and with our sighs the Air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign’d, and humiliation meek.
But THOU hast said, the blood of goat, The flesh of rams, I will not prize; A contrite heart, and humble thought, Are mine accepted sacrifice.
Robin MacRae, in a contrite mood for having been so intensely disagreeable yesterday, has just invited Betsy and me to take supper in his olive-green house next Sunday evening at seven o'clock in order to look at some microscopic slides.
For in his bulls he declares: Whoever would share in the indulgences or a Golden Year must be contrite, and have confessed, and pay money.
And the stark and staring eyes, Waits for the holy hands that took The Thief to Paradise; And a broken and a contrite heart The Lord will not despise.
Quotes with CONTRITE (3)
What the hell are you getting so upset about?" he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. "I thought you didn't believe in God.""I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. "But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.
He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting.“You need to be more careful,” he growled. “Keep interfering in my business and you might get hurt.” I said sweetly as I continued to Jesse's room, “The last man who swatted me like that is rotting in his grave.”“I have no doubt about it.” His voice was more satisfied then contrite.
O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay w…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1964–2016).