Crossword-Solution: PENITENTIAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Penitential | a. | Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. |
| Penitential | n. | A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| flagellant | 4 answers |
| Penitent | 31 answers |
| apologetic | 37 answers |
| Garment | 109 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PENITENTIAL (5)
The penitential den once set apart for interviews with the House, was now the news-Exchange, and was filled to overflowing.
Thus in times past the Penitential Canons increased, whereof we still see some traces in the satisfactions.
The topmost shelf of every closet was made to yield up its secret, cellar and coal-bin were probed to their darkest depths and, as a final stage in the lustral rites, the entire house was swathed in penitential white and deluged with expiatory soapsuds.
She suppressed his pocket-money, and during these penitential seasons he was reduced to the necessity of asking his friends to lend him twenty-franc pieces, which he generally forgot to return.
This was the day of reunited families, the day to which he had so long looked forward, thinking to awake in his own bed in Randolph Crescent, reconciled with all men and repeating the footprints of his youth; and here he was alone, pacing the alleys of a wintry garden and filled with penitential thoughts.
Quotes with PENITENTIAL (3)
Under the penitential gates Sustained by staring Seraphim Where the souls of the devout Burn invisible and dim.
That love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It works only evil in you. As soon as you wish to be natural, you becomecommon. To you nature seems something hostile; you have made devils out of the smiling gods of Greece, and out of me a demon. You can only exorcise and curse me, or slay yourselves in bacchantic madness before my altar. And if ever one of you has had the courage to kiss my red mouth,…
Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with the great family of man; thus, in a symbolic language universally understood, seeking (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth)’ Humbly to express A penitential loneliness.