Contrite is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTRITE in dictionary:

VERB:
• In a contrite manner.
NOUN:
• A contrite person.
ADJECTIVE:
• deeply sorry
• feeling or expressing remorse at the recognition that one has done wrong
• sorry and apologetic
• Thoroughly bruised or broken.
• Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.
• feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

Words related to CONTRITE

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Words that contain CONTRITE

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How to use CONTRITE in a sentence

• That she had was very evident from her actions, for she was at first defiant, and then contrite, and several times it was seen that she had been crying.
• The dog crouched, whined and thumped the earth with a contrite tail.
• It is the humble and contrite heart that God will not despise.
• My unreasonable resentment towards Aniela is passing, and the more I feel how undeserved was my harshness, the more contrite I become, and the more tenderly I think of her.
• By the time they reached home she was contrite and spiritless.
• He wanted to produce in them the humble and the contrite heart.
• What need had they of a contrite heart? I mention them, because they were good men.
• It seemed to him that life was doing considerably better than he deserved by him, and he felt very humble and contrite.
• Frail pledges of the contrite heart, Wherefore so soon decay? O, yet prolong your stay! Until my soul shall boldly rise, And claim its native skies, Haste not away.
• The heart is broken and becomes contrite, and ready to lay hold of the Crucified One, as soon as He is presented.
• At least he is contrite, and throws himself on the mercy of the court.
• Contrite and ashamed, he fell on his knees and prayed for pardon.
• Luther rebuked their wickedness, and would not promise them forgiveness unless contrite for their sins and earnestly endeavoring to amend their evil ways.
• As they approached the fire she slid her hand inside his arm and, glancing down, he saw the timid questioning of her face and was immediately contrite.
• The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.
• This feast is held to foster comradeship and love, to call God to mind and supplicate Him with contrite hearts, and to encourage benevolent pursuits.
• Lowly and contrite, with his face turned toward the mysterious realms of God, he wore his life away.
• You must therefore exert superhuman powers to guard the Cause of God, and beg humbly and with a contrite heart for help from the Kingdom on High.
• Proscribed from consecrated ground, Forbid thy sacred courts to tread, We know, where contrite hearts are found, Thy cleansing grace is largely shed.
• The short, shaking man on the chair, dully contrite for his spasm of rage, was cringing before Kate, who stood there, amazingly tall among these low-statured beings.
• Conway was badly wounded, and thinking himself dying, wrote a contrite note of apology to Washington, then recovered, left the country, and disappeared from the ken of history.
• PrAzar 16 Nevertheless in a contrite heart and an humble spirit let us be accepted.
• Come then let us cast ourselves at the foot of that cross, and cry aloud for mercy with a contrite and humble heart, which He will never despise.
• However contrite he may have shown himself for this the next morning, nobody desired to have the scene repeated.
• Like the best of women, she can wound at one moment and be contrite the next.
• Henry of Stramen saw that all his brilliant achievements against the family of Hers were only unjustifiable murders and robberies, and his haughty spirit was humbled and contrite.
• Her contrite spirit is at peace, among the forgiven ones in the world beyond the grave.
• The beginning of all good in us is the contrite acknowledgment of our evil.
• He was thoroughly contrite about it, and he did his best to recover an appearance of friendly good will.

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