penitent

  1. 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.
  2. Adjective.  oing penance.
  3. Noun.  One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
  4. Noun.  One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
  5. Noun.  ne under the direction of a confessor.

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