Noun:

अनुतापी, तोबा करनेवाला व्यक्ति,

Adjective:

तोबा करनेवाला,

penitents's Usage Examples:

(3) It became the custom to give the absolution to penitents immediately after their confession and before the penance was performed.

The fraternity of White Penitents buried the body with great ceremony, and performed a solemn service for the deceased as a martyr; the Franciscans followed their example; and these formalities led to the popular belief in the guilt of the unhappy family.

As for most penitents, all they cared for was to scrape through by the skin of their teeth.

The less the Church could expect from its penitents, the more it was driven to trust to the miraculous efficiency of sacramental grace.

For example, the priests are not to be chosen by the people; penitents are not to be present at ordinations (lest they should hear the failings of candidates discussed); bishops are to be appointed by the metropolitan and his suffragan; sub-deacons may not distribute the elements of the Eucharist; clerics are forbidden to leave a diocese without the bishop's permission.

In 1820 a band of flagellants appeared during a procession at Lisbon; and in the Latin countries, at the season of great festivals, one may still see brotherhoods of penitents flagellating themselves before the assembled faithful.

The king and his courtiers joined in the processions in the garb of penitents, and scourged themselves with ostentation.

Of the Lenten fast or Quadragesima, the first mention is in the fifth canon of the council of Nicaea (325), and from this time it is frequently referred to, but chiefly as a season of preparation for baptism, of absolution of penitents or of retreat and recollection.

Mere Angelique Arnaud, who at this time put herself under his direction and wished to join the Order of the Visitation, attracted by its humility and sweetness, may be named as the most interesting of his innumerable penitents of this period.

While I had no direct evidence the attendees were all registered sex offenders, the way they nodded and agreed at the mention of deviant sexual behavior made me feel I might be unique among like penitents.

Synonyms:

ruthful, penitential, sorry, repentant, regretful, contrite, penitentiary, rueful, remorseful, bad, ashamed,

Antonyms:

best, unregretful, impenitent, unashamed, unrepentant,