Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. One that repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
2. One under church censure, but admitted to penance.
3. One under the direction of a confessor.
4. Penitents is an appellation given to certain fraternities in catholic countries, distinguished by their habits and employed in charitable acts.
5. Order of penitents, a religious order established by one Bernard of Marseilles, about the year 1272, for the reception of reformed courtezans. The congregation of penitents at Paris, was founded with a similar view.
1. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.
2. Doing penance.
1. One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
3. One under the direction of a confessor.
Proceeding from or expressing penitence or contrition of heart; as penitential sorrow or tears.
Among the Romanists, a book containing the rules which relate to penance and the reconciliation of penitents.
A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book.
In a penitential manner.
of Penitentiary
1. One that prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
3. At the court of Rome, an office in which are examined and delivered out the secret bulls, graces or dispensations relating to cases of conscience, confession, etc.
4. An officer in some cathedrals, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him. The pope has a grand penitentiary who is a cardinal and is chief of the other penitentiaries.
5. A house of correction in which offenders are confined for punishment and reformation, and compelled to labor; a workhouse. A state prison is a penitentiary
2. Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter.
3. Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation.
1. One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
2. One who does penance.
3. A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
4. That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
5. An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.
6. An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.
7. A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.
The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court.
In a penitent manner.
Penitence Roget’s Thesaurus §950
N. penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse, regret, self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self- humiliation, stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience, compunctious visitings of nature, acknowledgment, confession, apology, recantation, penance, resipiscence|, awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae, stool of repentance, cuttystool, penitent, repentant, magdalen, prodigal son, "a sadder and a wiser man"
V. repent, be sorry for, be penitent, rue, regret, think better of, recant, knock under, plead guilty, sing miserere, sing de profundis, cry peccavi, own oneself in the wrong, acknowledge, confess &c, (disclose) 529, humble oneself, beg pardon, turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin, reclaim, repent in sackcloth and ashes &c, (do penance) 952, learn by experience
Adj. penitent, repenting, repentant, contrite, conscience- smitten, conscience-stricken, self-accusing, self-convicted, penitential, penitentiary, reclaimed, reborn, not hardened, unhardened
Adv. mea culpa
Phr. peccavi, erubuit, salva res est, tu l'as voulu, georges dandin, "and wet his grave with my repentant tears"
No Bible verses found for "penitent".