Contrite is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

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

contritely15 contriteness14

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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