单词	penitence
释义	penitentpen‧i‧tent1 /ˈpenɪtənt/ adjective formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINpenitent1 Origin: 1300-1400 Old French pénitent, from Latin, present participle of paenitere ‘to be sorry’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Phil was trying hard to look penitent. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS After watching a few more penitent men pass by I was ready to leave. And he had a notorious asperity for which he was afterwards sometimes penitent. And to a penitent soldier a crusade was even better than an unarmed pilgrimage. But Gao Jinjiao was rocking back and forth, bumping against the tree like a penitent little boy. But the short version points to a promise of progress in experience beyond the stage of penitent sorrow. He'd have liked to have seen Gina reading one of their notes with a penitent expression. He inherited a regular staff meeting and was penitent that he had never invented such a meeting in Durham. There are various Pelagias who are known as penitent harlots or virgin martyrs who died to escape a fate worse than death. feeling sorry because you have done something wrong, and are intending not to do it again SYN  repentant:  a penitent expression—penitently adverb—penitence noun [uncountable]
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