Meaning of PENITENT in English

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Meaning of PENITENT in English

• 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.
• Doing penance.
• One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
• One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
• One under the direction of a confessor.

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