Crossword-Solution: PENITENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Penitence | n. | The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “PENITENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Display of remorse | 1 answer |
| It may lead to atonement | 1 answer |
| Regretfulness | 1 answer |
| Sorrow for one's sins | 1 answer |
| BEING contrite | 3 answers |
| CATHOLIC sacrament | 4 answers |
| attrition | 10 answers |
| expiation | 10 answers |
| Contrition | 19 answers |
| Guilt | 35 answers |
| Life after death? | 45 answers |
| repentance | 45 answers |
| apology | 57 answers |
| Sorrow | 62 answers |
| Remorse | 72 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PENITENCE (5)
This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath.
Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.
What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
But brother Brian came into our Order a moody and disappointed man, stirred, I doubt me, to take our vows and to renounce the world, not in sincerity of soul, but as one whom some touch of light discontent had driven into penitence.
She felt all the force of that comparison; but not as her sister had hoped, to urge her to exertion now; she felt it with all the pain of continual self-reproach, regretted most bitterly that she had never exerted herself before; but it brought only the torture of penitence, without the hope of amendment.
Quotes with PENITENCE (3)
Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
Prison Moon Four a.m. work duty and I beginmy solitary trudge from outer compoundto main building. A shivering guard, chilled in his lonely outpost, strip searchesme until content that my inconsequential nudity. poses no threat and then whispersthe secret code that allows me admittance into the open quarter-mile walkway. I chuff my way into another dayas ice glints on the razor wireand the rifles note my numbed passage, silent but for my huffs and scuffleon the cracked, slipp…
A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Three Across, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1984–2016).