Crossword-Solution: PENITENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Penitent | a. | Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life. |
| Penitent | a. | Doing penance. |
| Penitent | n. | One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions. |
| Penitent | n. | One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance. |
| Penitent | n. | One under the direction of a confessor. |
We have 37 clues for the answer “PENITENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| expressing sorrow for ones sins | 1 answer |
| Contrite figure | 1 answer |
| Lent observer | 1 answer |
| PERSON doing penance | 1 answer |
| Person who confesses his sins to a priest | 1 answer |
| Ready to atone. | 1 answer |
| Showing sorrow | 1 answer |
| Sorry for | 1 answer |
| Sorry sinner | 1 answer |
| expressing sorrow for one s sins | 1 answer |
| With rue his heart is laden | 2 answers |
| Atoner | 2 answers |
| Prodigal son, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Hair shirt wearer | 3 answers |
| Conscience-stricken | 4 answers |
| Feeling remorse | 4 answers |
| Remorseful one | 4 answers |
| flagellant | 4 answers |
| penitential | 4 answers |
| "Very sorry!" | 6 answers |
| A PERSON WHO REPENTS FOR WRONGDOING | 11 answers |
| CONTRITE ONE | 11 answers |
| Ashamed | 23 answers |
| pitying | 24 answers |
| Regretful | 28 answers |
| repentant | 29 answers |
| Contrite | 31 answers |
| grieved | 35 answers |
| apologetic | 37 answers |
| ascetic | 45 answers |
| Hangdog | 48 answers |
| remorseful | 49 answers |
| sorrowing | 52 answers |
| Rueful | 58 answers |
| Sorry | 58 answers |
| Abject | 69 answers |
| Touching | 75 answers |
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Sentences with PENITENT (5)
There would have been no scandal, indeed, nor peril to the holy whiteness of the clergyman’s good fame, had she visited him in his own study, where many a penitent, ere now, had confessed sins of perhaps as deep a dye as the one betokened by the scarlet letter.
The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war; is applauded by those whose own act and authority he disregards and sets at naught; as if the State were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a moment.
The next day a cold; soon, a settled cough; anon, a hectic cheek, a wasted form, that sat beside the harpsichord, and filled the house with music! Music in which a strain of the heavenly choristers was echoed! Oh; joy! For Alice had borne her last humiliation! Oh, greater joy! For Alice was penitent of her one earthly sin, and proud no more! The Pyncheons made a great funeral for Alice.
Let these gentlemen hear of your most inexcusable conduct.” The big constable, very hot and penitent, sidled into the room.
Franklin, “now you have read the Colonel’s own statement, what do you say? In bringing the Moonstone to my aunt’s house, am I serving his vengeance blindfold, or am I vindicating him in the character of a penitent and Christian man?” “It seems hard to say, sir,” I answered, “that he died with a horrid revenge in his heart, and a horrid lie on his lips.
Quotes with PENITENT (3)
Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Cowa…
From Les Miserables: All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; women's voices, but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure accents of virgins and the innocent accent of children, -- voices which are not of the earth, and wh…
Manifest in this trade (commercial sale of indulgences via bankers) at the same time was a pernicious tendency in the Roman Catholic system, for the trade in indulgences was not an excess or an abuse but the direct consequence of the nomistic degradation of the gospel. That the Reformation started with Luther’s protest against this traffic in indulgences proves its religious origin and evangelical character. At issue here was nothing less than the essential character of the g…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 28 times in crossword archives (1954–2019).