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Meaning of पश्चात्ताप in English

  • Alt. of Eudaemonistic
  • In a penitential manner.
  • Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
  • Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter.
  • Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation.
  • One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
  • One who does penance.
  • A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
  • That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
  • 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.
  • An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.
  • A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.
  • In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
  • Quality or state of being remiss.
  • The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life.
  • Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.
  • Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
  • Same as Reptant.
  • To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.
  • To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.
  • To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
  • To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
  • To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.
  • To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally.
  • The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin.
  • In a repentant manner.
  • of Repent
  • One who repents.
  • Impenitence.

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