penitence 的定义
- the state of being penitent; regret for one's wrongdoing or sinning; contrition; repentance.
penitence 近义词
shame, sorrow
更多penitence例句
- Let them retire from public life and reflect with penitence on what we have seen today.
- Could the largest living icon of communism really be on the verge of penitence?
- Yet she still fasted, in penitence, and ministered to other sick people and to the elderly.
- “Everybody is redeemable if they show sufficient penitence,” former New York City Mayor Ed Koch said in an interview.
- She had no penitence, no consciousness of error or offence; no knowledge of any one circumstance but that he was gone.
- There were other rebellions against God during this time of penitence.
- My tears are not those of penitence; I do not weep for my sinfulness; I can neither think nor feel in this confusion.
- He left him, however, showing very little evidence of penitence, and entertaining for him very little hope.
- Thus we have seven different degrees of penitence, and he who neglects them all must suffer in the world to come.