Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɛnɪtənt/
penitent
- Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; feeling sincere guilt.
- 1838, Robert Burton (scholar), The Anatomy of Melancholy, B. Blake, p.730,
- If thou be penitent and grieved, or desirous to be so, these heinous sins shall not be laid to thy charge.
- 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained
- Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite.
- 1838, Robert Burton (scholar), The Anatomy of Melancholy, B. Blake, p.730,
- Doing penance.
- circa 1594 William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, [Act I, scene ii]:
- […] But we that know what ’tis to faſt and pray, / Are penitent for your default to day.
- circa 1594 William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, [Act I, scene ii]:
- See also Thesaurus:remorseful
- German: reumütig, reuig; bußfertig (religion)
- Russian: кающийся
penitent (plural penitents)
- One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his or her transgressions.
- One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- 1837, William Russell, The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Longman, Rees, & Co., page 20,
- Wamba, who defeated the Saracens in an attempt upon Spain, was deprived of the crown, because he had been clothed in the habit of a penitent, while labouring under the influence of poison, administered by the ambitious Erviga!
- 1837, William Russell, The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Longman, Rees, & Co., page 20,
- One under the direction of a confessor.
- penaunt
- French: pénitent
- German: Reumütiger; Bußfertiger (religion)
- German: Büßer
- German: Beichtkind
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