Penitent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PENITENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a person who repents his sins
• a person who repents their sins and (in the Christian Church) seeks forgiveness from God.
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) a person who confesses their sins to a priest and submits to the penance that he imposes.
• One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
• One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
• One under the direction of a confessor.
• (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
• someone who is penitent
ADJECTIVE:
• repentant
• feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentant
• feeling sorry for having done wrong
• Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.
• Doing penance.
• feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a person who repents his or her sins

Words related to PENITENT

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Words that contain PENITENT

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How to use PENITENT in a sentence

• The horse-stealer may be impressed, convicted, made penitent, and return the stolen horse.
• The prayers of the penitent and the shouts of the saved greeted every hour of the night.
• The doctor is with him, and when he has completely recovered he will probably be penitent.
• My emotions on leaving New Haven were, I imagine, much the same as those of a condemned but penitent criminal who looks upon the world for the last time.
• They all appeared very penitent, and begged hard for their lives.
• Know, that when all your arguments and philosophies have failed to teach men what they ought to do, one earnest penitent look at Christ upon his cross will teach them.
• Were we sure you had seen your folly, and were truly penitent, and, at the same time, that you were so very ill as you pretend, I know not what might be done for you.
• I quickly recognised it as a temptation of the devil, and I shrank back horror-stricken and penitent for the momentary lapse of faith.
• He was still in the phase of being a penitent pig, and he inquired carefully into the needs and duties of a summer guest in a country house.
• A penitent regards himself as a criminal condemned to death, because he is no longer worthy of life.
• Now are they penitent? or are you? Age, vocation, more serious employments, may perhaps have checked the sallies of youth.
• Nina had always overrun her dress allowance, although she had never failed to be sweetly penitent about it, and Nina had always placed an undue emphasis on things.
• Chris laid a trembling hand on the collar of the penitent Maori, and in this way the young people faced each other.
• It seems that the confessor composed these documents himself, and advised his fair penitent that there was no sin in perusing them.
• The outside life was to be the exponent of the penitent heart within.
• Therefore it seems that a penitent never rises again to lesser virtue.
• It is hoped, as a penitent sinner, he obtained the more needful mercy of God, through the abounding grace of Christ.
• She suffered too much in want of mercy, not to wish it to a penitent heart.
• Poor, dear girl! If there ever was a suffering penitent, here was one.
• Richard was very penitent, as his elder brother Henry had been, on his death-bed.
• But Madame Grambeau seemed not to have noticed this ridiculous proceeding, which, of course, created momentary mirth at the expense of the penitent Favraud, to whom Dr.
• In the enthusiasm of his awakened pity he had for a moment forgotten the pirate in the penitent.
• The prisoner was far from penitent for his offence.
• As the Penitent had said, in an earthquake one gets down to nakedness.
• Hence they pray to him for release from sin and he is gracious to the penitent.
• Her tingling smart of madness and anger passed, leaving her penitent and pitying.
• The tribal name is, as usual in Hosea, equivalent to Israel, whose penitent cry we heard at the beginning of the passage.
• He then called in a faint voice, and presently the penitent Ignacio stood beside him.

Similar words containing PENIT without suffix ent

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