penitentialadjective
uk/ˌpen.ɪˈten.ʃəl//ˌpen.ɪˈten.ʃəl/formalshowing that you are sorry, especially in a formal religious way, for wrong things that you have done:
It was the end of the penitential month of Ramadan.
a penitential prayer
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