Word
Penitent
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
pen-i-tent
Definition
- a. - 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.
- a. - Doing penance.
- n. - One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his
transgressions.
- n. - One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one
undergoing penance.
- n. - One under the direction of a confessor.
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