英语词汇“penitent”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

penitent

释义

feeling or expressing sorrow for sins or offences

penitence noun

penitently adv

[Middle English via French from Latin paenitent-, paenitens, present part. of paenitēre to be sorry]

somebody who repents of sin

in the Roman Catholic Church, somebody under church censure but admitted to penance, esp under the direction of a confessor

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