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How to use penitent in a sentence

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What they did find was a party leader in penitent mood who came not to put fire in bellies or cajole into action, but with a limp apology.
We have a husband-wife privilege, a doctor-patient privilege, an attorney-client privilege and even a privilege between priest and penitent.
We see here a truly humble and penitent man doing what he knows is the right thing.
Only your penitent suffering gives us leverage to keep those forces in abeyance.
Carrying plugs festooned with treble hooks is a price that is inevitably paid by the penitent plug fisherman.
His favoured tool was the confession note, a certificate confirming that a penitent had been confessed by an authorized priest.
I can see that part of the Church's mission is forgiveness and second chances for the penitent.
If theft were promoted in the name of St Dismas, penitent thief, how would we react?
The man could modulate his voice into a great variety of tones, booming, hushed, lyrical, penitent, frightened.
And there are few things more vicious than the mercilessness fallen man shows a penitent.
I am truly contrite, penitent, repentant, remorseful and steeped in the tears of my regretfulness.
Rather, once a person has properly repented, including making appropriate recompense, then He freely forgives the penitent.
Unless we have solid evidence that the penitent is deceiving us, we are clearly not to withhold it.
If there is no more posting for a few hours, it will be because the Professor is mortifying the flesh with whips, chains and other penitent aids.
The penitent then leaves the confessional and goes and prays his penance in the church.
Don't think for a second that you won't have to suffer in some sort of penitent silence.
The typist smiles to himself as the story returns like an apologetic lover, penitent, regretful and contrite.
It was still Sam, his confidant, his confessor, his penitent, his port in the storm and most beloved brother.
He was like a penitent man who was fighting for repentance to some grave sin he had committed.
And it is to turn the form of confession into one in which the penitent interrogates the confessor.
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It is a tribunal in which the priest is judge and the penitent a prisoner who pleads guilty.
But if she began to cry, then Harry had the worst of it, and was as penitent as any good child.
This was evidently no put-on apology for the occasion, and Wyndham, as he spoke, looked as penitent as his words.
It was best to assume they were a penitent band of inquirers for the truth.
She still saw the dress of the penitent who was at the confessional near the entrance.
Under these new auspices the fair penitent and the renunciatory hero began long careers in English drama and fiction.
At forty, at sixty, at threescore and ten, let not an old penitent despair.
Jack was fruitfully penitent, and there was a hilarious scheme for the day afoot, with parks and picnics and Pilsener in it.
With a sudden revulsion of feeling and tactics, he determined to throw himself, at once, into the penitent and candid.
Had not the penitent Harold more peace at the last than the king Henry?
The big constable, very hot and penitent, sidled into the room.
Macdonald's always the first one to go up to the penitent bench.
It only needed a beginning, and the penitent bench would be crowded.
The penitent was informed by his Jacobite friends that he was forgiven.
Did she lie down in the gloomy bedroom of the old inn that night with her will bent unwaveringly on the path of penitent sacrifice?
Farther cardi knew quite well with what kind of penitent he had to deal.
The praying of this petition presupposes a penitent state of heart.
If we are not truly penitent, this petition is a mockery on our lips.
She powdered her nose and looked penitent and distractingly pretty.
The monk hath some fair penitent to shrive to-night, that he is in such a hurry to depart,'' said De Bracy.
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