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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024grand′ peniten′tiary. - ReligionSee under penitentiary (def. 3).
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pen•i•ten•tia•ry /ˌpɛnɪˈtɛnʃəri/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -ries. - a place for imprisonment or punishment.
See -pen-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pen•i•ten•tia•ry (pen′i ten′shə rē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ries, adj. n. - a place for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment, esp. a prison maintained in the U.S. by a state or the federal government for serious offenders.
- Religion[Rom. Cath. Ch.]a tribunal in the Curia Romana, presided over by a cardinal (grand penitentiary), having jurisdiction over certain matters, as penance, confession, dispensation, absolution, and impediments, and dealing with questions of conscience reserved for the Holy See.
adj. - (of an offense) punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary.
- of, pertaining to, or intended for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment.
- penitential.
- Medieval Latin pēnitēntiārius of penance. See penitence, -ary
- late Middle English penitenciarie priest who administers penance, prison 1375–1425
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