Penitence is valid Scrabble Word

Is penitence a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is penitence valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for PENITENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:

the state of being penitent, also PENITENCY
the action of feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentance
The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition.
remorse for your past conduct

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the quality or state of being penitent; sorrow for sins or faults

Words related to PENITENCE

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Words that contain PENITENCE

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How to use PENITENCE in a sentence

Now Madeline was quite ready to depart on her pilgrimage of penitence.
Unavailing penitence translated itself in my thoughts to fresh resolve.
At the end of the time his penitence was complete, and he promised me to change his ways for the future.
How happy the change which should place him by their side! His remorse, and shame, and penitence made him willing to embrace the lot of the lowest of them all.
A wild fire was tamed in that hour of penitence at the boarding school, such as has oftentimes wrapped court and camp in its destructive glow.
Yet not in vain, perchance, my tears, My penitence, my patient prayer, For, softened with the flow of years, My breast is lightened of its care.
And I am now, as I ought to be, in a state of humiliation and penitence for the rash step which has been followed by so much evil.
And if I did not ask it, it might seem to be owing to stubbornness and want of duty, when my heart is all humility penitence.
Her penitence was the beginning of the sentimental side of our acquaintance.
Be ye whom ye may, prince or subject, high or low, penitence alone can save you.

Let us alone examine as to whether the majority of us have a right, through penitence, to salvation.
He was led to bow in penitence and submission at the feet of Jesus.
In the historian we find that the admonitions of Hamlet awakened the conscience of the queen, and recalled her to penitence and virtue.
But take away the sunshine, give him a wet hide and a wet floor to camp on, and he straightway becomes all penitence and prayer.
At length I determined, with tears of penitence, to return, to confess all, to purchase back the miniature from Williams with money I had won.
These aroused all to penitence, and there was frequent petition for the holy sacraments.
The discomfort seemed appropriate as penitence on that holy occasion.
God, he said, had accepted his penitence, and was now about to take him under his special protection.
Faith in immortality and Providence, penitence and penance, and humanitarian sentiment, are hardly to be found in his pages.
She consoled herself by the reflection that at least she had committed no fault, and that no active discipline of penitence could justly be expected of her.
Many of them, it is true, seek to make it a mere lodging-house, and deceive the officers by their false penitence, but many are saved from sin every year.
He had been early taught that restitution to the wronged was one of the evidences of real penitence.
To enter into the spirit of this sigh of penitence is a new knowledge of the human heart.
Finally King Abenner is drawn to the truth, and after some years of penitence dies.
Should it please God to spare and restore me to health, I shall return, and endeavor, by a life of penitence and rectitude, to expiate my past offences.
He looked very much distressed, and proceeded at once to express his penitence.
God only asks a true penitence, and you can offer Him no fairer fruits of penitence than those you have brought this morning.
They experience real sentiments of remorse, but neither remorse nor penitence enables them to grapple with their evil star.
They had to be rudely shaken out of their self-complacency and taught that the livery of the King was purity, and the preparation for His coming, penitence.

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