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penitence

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Let them retire from public life and reflect with penitence on what we have seen today.

Could the largest living icon of communism really be on the verge of penitence?

Yet she still fasted, in penitence, and ministered to other sick people and to the elderly.

“Everybody is redeemable if they show sufficient penitence,” former New York City Mayor Ed Koch said in an interview.

She had no penitence, no consciousness of error or offence; no knowledge of any one circumstance but that he was gone.

There were other rebellions against God during this time of penitence.

My tears are not those of penitence; I do not weep for my sinfulness; I can neither think nor feel in this confusion.

He left him, however, showing very little evidence of penitence, and entertaining for him very little hope.

Thus we have seven different degrees of penitence, and he who neglects them all must suffer in the world to come.

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to penitence, such as: contrition, penance, repentance, anguish, attrition, and compunction.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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