penitent
- Adjective. 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.
- Adjective. oing penance.
- Noun. One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
- Noun. One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- Noun. ne under the direction of a confessor.
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