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Roman Catholic tribunals
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penitentiaries
Word definitions for penitentiaries in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penitentiary \Pen`i*ten"tia*ry\, n.; pl. Penitentiaries . [Cf. F. p['e]nitencier. See Penitent .] One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance. [Obs.] --Bacon. One who does penance. [Obs.] --Hammond. A small building in a monastery where penitents ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of penitentiary English)
Usage examples of penitentiaries.
The penitentiaries of Britain were full of people who would never have believed it.
Of Branson's permanent nucleus of eighteen men, nine of them had spent various times in various penitentiaries up and down the country reflecting upon the vagaries of fortune.
There was a metal detector device, somewhat like those used in penitentiaries to learn whether the inmates are carrying weapons, concealed in the door frame.
I gave him some background on the serial killer study we’d done in the FBI, how we’d gone around to the penitentiaries and learned from the actual killers what was going on in their minds.