penitential

Very devoted, but a "wooden" woman, a "veritable penitential brush."

Condemned to be strangled, he heard the sentence without a murmur, and went to his death singing the penitential psalms.

I ought to add that he has tried to make reparation, and is apparently contrite to the limit of his penitential capacity.

It was her first openly penitential utterance in his presence, and her cheeks were faintly reddened.

On his death-bed the conqueror Henry V was listening to the priests repeating the penitential psalms.