penitential
/pɛnɪˈtɛnʃ(ə)l
/adjective
Relating to or expressing penitence or penance: penitential tears...
- According to tradition, Mary Magdalen spent the thirty years as a hermit in the desert devoted to penitential contemplation.
- There will be a penitential service in the Dominican Church tonight at 8 pm and all are welcome to attend.
- A penitential service for the boys and girls and anyone else wishing to take part will be held in Holy Cross church, Stradbally, on Monday, May 9, at 7.30 p.m.
Derivatives
penitentially
- In one story, a young man wanders the streets penitentially tied to his girlfriend who he drove to madness and attempted suicide by briefly deserting her for a richer woman.
- Portia's household ‘ceremoniously’ prepares a musical welcome for her as she journeys back from her courtroom triumph, penitentially kneeling and praying at wayside crosses.
Origin
Late 15th century: from late Latin paenitentialis, from Latin paenitentia 'repentance'.
Rhymes
- diehard
- die-in
- die in bed
- die in harness
- diel
- dieldrin
- dielectric
- dielectrically
- dielectric constant
- dielectric heating
- dielectrophoresis
- die like flies
- die link
- Diels–Alder
- Diels–Alder reaction
- Dien Bien Phu
- diencephalic
- diencephalon
- diene
- die-off
- die on one's feet
- die on the Order Paper
- die on the vine
- die (or drop) like flies
- Dieppe