The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition.
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A pricking; stimulation.
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The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life.
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The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.
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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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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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Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears.
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Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears.
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Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
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Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
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Repentance.
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The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin.
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