penitent

In one scene, a penitent missus in a shapeless tube dress scratches her head and admits to having crashed the car.

Still, that might not do it: not every believer, or even all members of the penitent, will be taken.

He would later say about his subway pictures that they were made in the “hands of a penitent spy and an apologetic voyeur.”

His admonition last week to the Irish church repeatedly emphasised that heaven still awaits the penitent pedophile priest.

I was glad to learn that Mary Magdalene's penitent side was not the main attraction here.

They are unquestionably penitent now; but then, you know, they have the recollection of very recent suffering fresh upon them.

Note that the penitent is here supposed to address his own parish-priest.

In this capacity, he assisted at the public confession of his penitent, Mme. Graslin, in the summer of 1844.

It was also, probably, designed as a protest against the rigour of the Novatians in refusing reconciliation to penitent apostates.

Discussions of the relative merits of The Fair Penitent and its source have been almost invariably acrimonious.