Contrite: alternatives and connections

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.

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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.

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Penitent; sorry for sin.

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Penitent; sorry for sin.

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The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.

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The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.

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Full of remorse.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

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Full of ruth

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