penitent 的 2 个定义
- feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
- a penitent person.
- Roman Catholic Church. a person who confesses sin and submits to a penance.
penitent 近义词
shamed, sorrowful
penitent 的近义词 13 个
- repentant
- abject
- apologetic
- atoning
- attritional
- compunctious
- conscience-stricken
- contrite
- penitential
- regretful
- remorseful
- rueful
- sorry
penitent 的反义词 2 个
更多penitent例句
- In one scene, a penitent missus in a shapeless tube dress scratches her head and admits to having crashed the car.
- Still, that might not do it: not every believer, or even all members of the penitent, will be taken.
- He would later say about his subway pictures that they were made in the “hands of a penitent spy and an apologetic voyeur.”
- His admonition last week to the Irish church repeatedly emphasised that heaven still awaits the penitent pedophile priest.
- I was glad to learn that Mary Magdalene's penitent side was not the main attraction here.
- They are unquestionably penitent now; but then, you know, they have the recollection of very recent suffering fresh upon them.
- Note that the penitent is here supposed to address his own parish-priest.
- In this capacity, he assisted at the public confession of his penitent, Mme. Graslin, in the summer of 1844.
- It was also, probably, designed as a protest against the rigour of the Novatians in refusing reconciliation to penitent apostates.
- Discussions of the relative merits of The Fair Penitent and its source have been almost invariably acrimonious.