Crossword clues for penitence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penitence \Pen"i*tence\, n. [F. p['e]nitence, L. paenitentia.
See Penitent, and cf. Penance.]
The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition
of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance;
contrition. ``Penitence of his old guilt.''
--Chaucer.
Death is deferred, and penitenance has room
To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom.
--Dryden.
Syn: Repentance; contrition; compunction.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from Old French penitence (11c.) and directly from Latin paenitentia "repentance," noun of condition from paenitentum (nominative paenitens) "penitent," present participle of paenitere "cause or feel regret," probably originally "is not enough, is unsatisfactory," from paene "nearby, almost."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (l en condition Condition) of being (l en penitent). 2 (l en feeling Feeling) of (l en regret) or (l en remorse) for doing (l en wrong) or (l en sinning).
WordNet
n. remorse for your past conduct [syn: repentance, penance]
Usage examples of "penitence".
But Eveena could read my feelings in spite of my words, and knew that the pain she had given was too recent to allow me to misconceive her penitence.
Your Agia came to me with a very valuable thaumaturgist in her train, and asked as the price of his service and her own only that you, Severian of the Order of the Seekers for Truth and Penitence, should be put into her hands.
Great ill feeling was aroused against Thangbrand by this unpriestly incident, and he went back full of penitence to King Olaf.
The third part of penitence is satisfaction, and that standeth generally in almsdeed and bodily pain.
They were not yet converted, but they knew that not far away, over toward Assisi, were living men who had renounced all worldly goods, and who, consumed with zeal, were going up and down preaching penitence and peace.
They were called the Bianchi, the Whites, for the white linen robes they wore as a sign of penitence and spiritual renewal.
New Mexico, where he had been corrupted by the Penitente movement, that strange, John-the-Baptist-type of desert fanaticism in which devout members pierced their backs with cactus thorns to display their penitence, and when he sponsored such carryings-on, the respectable Christians of northern Colorado made it clear that they would not tolerate such behavior.
Christmas joys, even, sometimes, after Septuagesima had struck the note of penitence.
But for to save us, that sithens us bought: Then needeth us no weapon us to save, But only, where we did not as we ought, Do penitence, and mercy ask and have.
Thus adjured, Topsy confessed to the ribbon and gloves, with woful protestations of penitence.
As a matter of fact, I saw more sense than madness in this outburst, for it must have been very grievous for the poor girl to have to encounter my idle curiosity, in the place of her penitence.
And then, and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.
This holy orison aminisheth [lesseneth] eke venial sin, and therefore it appertaineth specially to penitence.
To very perfect penitence are behoveful and necessary three things: contrition of heart, confession of mouth, and satisfaction.
The only reason we can think of is, that perhaps he had lapsed from the piety of his father and brother, and adhered to the superstition of the Chaldeans, and had afterwards emigrated thence, either through penitence, or because he was persecuted as a suspected person.