Word Meanings - PENITENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

p.pr. of paenitere, poenitere, to cause to repent, to repent; prob. 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. Be penitent, and for thy

Additional info about word: PENITENT

p.pr. of paenitere, poenitere, to cause to repent, to repent; prob. 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. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton. The pound he tamed, the penitent he cheered. Dryden. 2. Doing penance. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PENITENT)

• Penitential
• Wailing
• mournful
• dirgeful
• sorrowful
• contrite
• penitent

Related words: (words related to PENITENT)

• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• PENITENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse.
• DIRGEFUL
  Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.
• WAILMENT
  Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.
• WAIL
  To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.
• PENITENTLY
  In a penitent manner.
• WAILFUL
  Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
• WAILINGLY
  In a wailing manner.
• PENITENT
  p.pr. of paenitere, poenitere, to cause to repent, to repent; prob. 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. Be penitent, and for thy
• PENITENTIARYSHIP
  The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court. Wood.
• WAILERESS
  A woman who wails.
• CONTRITE
  grind, bruise; con- + terere to rub, grind: cf. F. contrit See 1. Thoroughly bruised or broken. 2. Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. A contrite heart,
• PENITENTIALLY
  In a penitential manner.
• CONTRITENESS
  Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.
• SORROWFUL
  1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
• PENITENTIARY
  1. Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance. "A penitentiary tax." Abp. Bramhall. 2. Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter. 3. Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation. "Penitentiary houses." Blackstone.
• WAILER
  One who wails or laments.
• BEWAIL
  To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
• BEWAILING
  Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
• BEWAILABLE
  Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
• WIDOW-WAIL
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.