Adjective:

தீவினை செய்ததற்காக வருந்துதல் சார்ந்த,

penitential's Usage Examples:

penitential fashion he should offer a candle to the principal image, and should certify.

commissary ordered that barefoot and in penitential fashion he should offer a candle to the principal image, and should certify.

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

She obtained an interview with him, and to test her resolution he told her to dress in penitential sackcloth and beg alms for the poor in the streets of Assisi.

Violet vestments are also worn on days of intercession, at votive masses of the Passion, at certain other masses of a pronouncedly intercessory and penitential character, at intercessory processions, at the blessing of candles on Candlemas Day, and at the blessing of the baptismal water.

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.

Does a blue-crowned motmot or a violaceous euphonia really want to hear strange instrumental shrieks before breakfast?In it were written most of the penitential hymns, which were possibly thought to require a more euphonious idiom than, for example, hymns of praise.

The fifth canon of the council of Macon, in 584, forbids clergy to dress like laymen and imposes a penalty of thirty days' imprisonment on bread and water; but this may be merely penitential.

dutiful daughter on the whole, wasn't I?4 According to the doubtful Life of James, she wrote to him on the 1st of December a "most penitential and dutiful" letter, and henceforward kept up with him a "fair correspondence.

penitential psalms, evincing a tone of sincere piety.

In the diocese of Rome, exercised discipline of a penitential kind over their lay members; but in later times their censures have generally ceased to carry temporal consequences.

Synonyms:

repentant, penitent, penitentiary,

Antonyms:

unashamed, rehabilitative, unrepentant, impenitent,