Penitential is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PENITENTIAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a book of rules relating to penance
• A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book.
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to penitence
• relating to or expressing penitence or penance
• Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears.
• showing or constituting penance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of or relating to penitence or penance

Words related to PENITENTIAL

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Words that contain PENITENTIAL

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How to use PENITENTIAL in a sentence

• All day long, Henry, bareheaded, clad in penitential garb, and fasting from morning till night, awaited the sentence of the sovereign pontiff.
• Penitential prayers in all ages have too often wanted faith in God, and therefore have been too often prayers to avert punishment.
• The more inaccessible or forbidding the island the more it was in request as a penitential retreat.
• XXXII This penitential mood kept her from naming the wedding-day.
• The great Augustine died with the penitential Psalms hung round his bed.
• Here all his intellectual, imaginative, and spiritual powers were fused into one and poured themselves forth in an unbroken stream of penitential and adoring affection.
• There was a multiplication of temples, altars, and penitential garments.
• Penitential, he opened it with an air of gentle forbearance.
• And Kenny, in rags and penitential, his feet blistered by the hardships of the road, would overtake his son and apologize for everything.
• He went with the break of day at a swinging stride, his penitential inspiration in the full flower of its freshness.
• Penance or no penance he must now try penitential speed.
• The letter, reminiscent of his penitential quest for Brian, roused voices that he did not want to hear.
• It had served no other purpose than to lead the penitential lunatic to Craig Farm.
• They recited the penitential psalms and other prayers, at the end of which, the sick man, very happy, conversed with his brethren with great affability.
• When they took any slight and hurried refreshment, it was for their necessary relief and rest, since the rest of their time was broken with penitential exercises.
• He had laid aside every badge of royalty, being clothed in penitential dress and barefoot, and fasting and praying from morning to evening.
• Hence fasting has been so commonly associated with penitential exercises.
• About the middle of the third century a new arrangement was introduced, with a view to promote the more exact administration of penitential discipline.
• The wind sobbed fitfully a moment, little sad remorseful penitential sobs, and died away softly across the prairie as a breath of May.
• Francis cut off her long golden hair, and threw his own penitential habit over her.
• Passing on, they reached a small wooden quay, belonging to the penitential administration.
• Verily, like penitential preachers and fools did I cry wrath and shame on all their greatness and smallness.
• There are moments when we are not in place even on penitential knees.
• Let us therefore begin, you and I, the seven penitential psalms, to try whether you shall not quickly fall asleep.
• Some of his writings have come down to us, and comprise his Rule for Monks, his Penitential, sixteen short sermons, six letters, and several poems, all in Latin.
• Charioteer, even without being told, I should have known that these were the precincts of a grove consecrated to penitential rites.
• Beloved father, thy frame is much enfeebled by penitential exercises.
• The penitential hymns appear to contain expressions of sorrow for sin, which would indicate a high development of the religious consciousness.
• Your penitential tears have obliterated your guilt and blotted out your errors with your Julia.
• The penitential mood that had resulted from her talk with Portia was utterly gone.

Similar words containing PENITENTI without suffix al

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