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p.pr. of paenitere, poenitere, to cause to repent, to repent; prob. 1. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life. Be penitent, and for thy

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p.pr. of paenitere, poenitere, to cause to repent, to repent; prob. 1. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton. The pound he tamed, the penitent he cheered. Dryden. 2. Doing penance. Shak.

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  • MOURNFUL
    Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
  • PENITENTIAL
    Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse.
  • DIRGEFUL
    Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.
  • WAILMENT
    Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.
  • WAIL
    To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.
  • PENITENTLY
    In a penitent manner.
  • WAILFUL
    Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
  • WAILINGLY
    In a wailing manner.
  • PENITENT
    p.pr. of paenitere, poenitere, to cause to repent, to repent; prob. 1. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life. Be penitent, and for thy
  • PENITENTIARYSHIP
    The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court. Wood.
  • WAILERESS
    A woman who wails.
  • CONTRITE
    grind, bruise; con- + terere to rub, grind: cf. F. contrit See 1. Thoroughly bruised or broken. 2. Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. A contrite heart,
  • PENITENTIALLY
    In a penitential manner.
  • CONTRITENESS
    Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.
  • SORROWFUL
    1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
  • PENITENTIARY
    1. Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance. "A penitentiary tax." Abp. Bramhall. 2. Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter. 3. Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation. "Penitentiary houses." Blackstone.
  • WAILER
    One who wails or laments.
  • BEWAIL
    To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
  • BEWAILING
    Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
  • BEWAILABLE
    Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
  • WIDOW-WAIL
    A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.

 

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