Penitential Synonyms

pĕnĭ-tĕnshəl
Showing or constituting penance
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. penitentiary
Feeling or expressing regret for one's sins or misdeeds
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. compunctious
  2. contrite
  3. penitent
  4. regretful
  5. remorseful
  6. repentant
  7. sorry

Words Related to Penitential

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. regret
  2. ante-communion
  3. non-eucharistic
  4. holy-week

Penitential Sentence Examples

  • Litanies The Penitential Rite; Prayer of the Faithful; the Lamb of God.

  • Litanies The Penitential rite; Prayer of the Faithful; the Lamb of God.

  • Damiani advocated the substitution of flagellation for the recitation of the penitential psalms, and drew up a scale according to which 1000 strokes were equivalent to ten psalms, and 15,000 to the whole psalter.

  • 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.

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