Crossword-Solution: PENITENTE
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| New Mexico flagellant. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
SLDARO
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with PENITENTE (5)
His grandfather had whittled this famous image out of a cottonwood tree, whereon a saintly Penitente had been crucified after the custom of the order of Flagellants.
This Penitente resembled the penitent thief who died on the cross and entered Paradise with the Saviour in this, that he was known to be a good horse thief, and as he had died on the cross on a night of Good Friday, he surely went to Glory Everlasting.
The "_penitente_" wears only a pair of loose thin white cotton trousers, and is beaten on the back by another native first with hands and then with a piece of wood with little metal points in it until the blood flows freely.
One man that was elected to Congress—they say that the _penitente_ stripes on his back carried him there.
Guiterrez, a young sheep-herder, held the position of _coadjutor_ of the local _penitente_ chapter, and one of his duties as such was to take the penitent to his house and care for him after the initiation.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1945).