penitent
Adjective
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also:similar to:
- contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
- penitential, penitentiary - showing or constituting penance
same as: repentant
Noun
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referred to in: church of rome, roman catholic, roman catholic church, roman church, western church - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchyis a type of: religious person - a person who manifests devotion to a deitysubtypes: flagellant - a person who whips himself as a religious penance
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