Sentence example with the word 'penitential'

penitential

abject, balancing, compunctious, countervailing, lustral, penitent, purgatorial, rectifying, reparative, restitutive, sheepish

Definition adj. showing or constituting penance

Last update: July 21, 2015


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It is difficult to say how far some of these temporal penalties were penitential only or how far they could be inflicted in invitos.   [Please select]

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Each man also made his private vow to perform some pilgrimage, or other penitential rite.   [Please select]

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He read many prayers of the Catholic Church, and chanted, in a low but earnest voice, three of the penitential psalms.   [Please select]

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-perhaps even a satisfaction to her, as the sting of the penitential whip is a satisfaction to the sinner.   [Please select]

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The penitential mood that had resulted from her talk with Portia was utterly gone.   [Please select]

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Then, he laid down his head, and asked the attendant priests to chant the penitential psalms.   [Please select]

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This system of penitential punishment referred only to the earthly life; it was not supposed to cleanse the soul for eternity.   [Please select]

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In his old age he was imprisoned and sentenced to repeat the seven penitential psalms for differing from Aristotle and Moses and the teachings of the theologians.   [Please select]

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