penitent's Usage Examples:

He was condemned, as "vehemently suspected of heresy," to incarceration at the pleasure of the tribunal, and by way of penance was enjoined to recite once a week for three years the seven penitential psalms.

The state supports the following charitable and correctional institutions: a soldiers' home (1894) at Roseburg and a school for deaf mutes (1870), an institute for the blind (1873), a reform school, an insane asylum and a penitentiary at Salem, the capital of the state.

Brown called upon the convicts in the penitentiary for aid, granting them pardons in return for their services.

For they are the natural and logical consequence of the acts which the penitent deplores.

penitential service for the Pastoral Area will take place here at St Wilfrid's on Saturday 3 April at 2.

In order to minimize competition between prison labour and free labour, articles manufactured in the state prisons, the reformatories and the penitentiaries, are sold only to the institutions and departments of the state and its political divisions.

Cavite has long been the principal naval base of the Philippine Islands, and one of the four Spanish penitentiaries in the Islands was here.

The trustees of each penal institution are appointed by the governor, and the commissioners of the two penitentiaries and the managers of the state reformatory compose a Board of Prison Industries.

The practice of confession in the Church of England practically dates from his two sermons on The Entire Absolution of the Penitent, in 1846, in which the revival of high sacramental doctrine is complemented by the advocacy of a revival of the penitential system which medieval theologians had appended to it.

The same board together with the superintendent of the penitentiary constitute a prison board.

Rather God forgives only the penitent and one of the chief evidences of true penitence is a forgiving spirit.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

best, unregretful, impenitent, unashamed, unrepentant,