Sentence example with the word 'penitence'

penitence

abject apology, attrition, confession, degradation, grief, lustration, penitential act, qualm, remorse, ruth, self-accusation, sorrowfulness

Definition n. remorse for your past conduct

Last update: September 21, 2015


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She is feeling penitence for what she has done to me.   [Please select]

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But in that time of reckoning will come reflection, penitence.   [Please select]

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"Now of his penitence."   [Please select]

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"Why this access of penitence for bygone crimes."   [Please select]

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Prayer and penitence have too often a tendency to kick the beam when fear ceases to weight the balance.   [Please select]

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He looked crestfallen, his kindly and well-favoured countenance being overspread by an expression of disarmingly innocent penitence.   [Please select]

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He sobbed aloud at last in his penitence, and his heart went back to the night of the wreck.   [Please select]

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There was a reason why Chiltern's letters had not arrived, and great were Honora's self-reproach and penitence.   [Please select]

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It was characteristic of him that his penitence was never spoken: nor did he exhibit penitence.   [Please select]

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'It is never too late,' said Rose, 'for penitence and atonement.'   [Please select]

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Leave me alone with God and my penitence, and may the Lord have mercy on you.   [Please select]

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