Crossword-Solution: PENITENTIARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Penitentiary | a. | Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance. |
| Penitentiary | a. | Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter. |
| Penitentiary | a. | Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation. |
| Penitentiary | n. | One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance. |
| Penitentiary | n. | One who does penance. |
| Penitentiary | n. | A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed. |
| Penitentiary | n. | That part of a church to which penitents were admitted. |
| Penitentiary | n. | An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope. |
| Penitentiary | n. | An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him. |
| Penitentiary | n. | A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “PENITENTIARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers | 1 answer |
| papal court office | 1 answer |
| PRISONERS, place for long-term | 1 answer |
| PAPAL court office deciding questions of penance, dispensations etc. | 1 answer |
| OFFENCE making culprit liable to prison sentence (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| MAKING culprit liable to prison sentence (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| DETENTION place for long-term prisoners | 1 answer |
| DETENTION facility | 2 answers |
| CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE DETENTION AND DISCIPLINE AND TRAINING OF YOUNG OR FIRST OFFENDERS | 11 answers |
| A CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THOSE CONVICTED OF MAJOR CRIMES | 11 answers |
| Place of confinement | 14 answers |
| reformatory | 15 answers |
| TORTURE chamber | 22 answers |
| Lockup | 23 answers |
| penal institution | 23 answers |
| gaol | 24 answers |
| Prison | 36 answers |
| Cage | 37 answers |
| Jail | 44 answers |
| Pen | 53 answers |
| CELL ___ | 57 answers |
| institution | 64 answers |
| Hold | 71 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with PENITENTIARY (5)
Cherry County; that’s where the hay is so fine, and the coyotes can scratch down to water.” At nine o’clock the next morning Alexandra presented herself at the warden’s office in the State Penitentiary.
The intention was to divide into three columns: one to attack the penitentiary which was being used as an arsenal, another to capture the powder house, and a third to attack the city itself.
Nothing is easier than to offer so-called proofs of the contention that the Negro's tendency to crime is something peculiar to his race; there are the jail and penitentiary and gallows statistics, for instance.
Samuel slapped one on the shoulder, with the true democracy of the politician, and said jocosely: “Well, we Budds may not be what you call great people, but, thank God, none of us have ever been in the penitentiary,” and he laughed loudly, thinking that he had scored a great and jolly point.
This is what Billy read: Billy Byrne, sentenced to life imprisonment in Joliet penitentiary for the murder of Schneider, the old West Side saloon keeper, hurled himself from the train that was bearing him to Joliet yesterday, dragging with him the deputy sheriff to whom he was handcuffed.
Quotes with PENITENTIARY (3)
You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Your lover lived in the penitentiary that we are all born into, and was forced to rake the dregs of that world for his living. He knew affection and tenderness but only briefly. Eventually, one of the other inmates stabbed him with a cutlass and he drowned upon his own blood. Is that it, Evey? Is that the happiness worth more than fr…
If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same.
But, if you've decided to go out on a limb and kill one, for goodness' sake, be prepared. We all read, with dismay, the sad story of a good woman wronged in south Mississippi who took that option and made a complete mess of the entire thing. See, first she shot him. Well, she saw right off the bat that that was a mistake because then she had this enormous dead body to deal with. He was every bit as much trouble to her dead as he ever had been alive, and was getting more so al…