Penitential: alternatives and connections

The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgi…

Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.

The Book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and auth…

A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n.

Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.

Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.

Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.

The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing to God; humble penitence; through repentan…

Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.

To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body…

Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come in…

Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions.

Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.

Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.

To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.

A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in…