Penitent
['penɪt(ə)nt] or ['pɛnətənt]
解释:
(noun.) (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor).
(adj.) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds .
录入:皮埃尔--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.
(a.) Doing penance.
(n.) One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
(n.) One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
(n.) One under the direction of a confessor.
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同义词及近义词：
a. Repentant, contrite.
n. Repentant.
整理:温弗雷德
同义词及反义词：
[See PENITENTIAL]
编辑:耶鲁
解释:
adj. suffering pain or sorrow for sin: contrite: repentant.—n. one who is sorry for sin: one who has confessed sin and is undergoing penance.—ns. Pen′itence Pen′itency state of being penitent: sorrow for sin.—adj. Peniten′tial pertaining to or expressive of penitence.—n. a book of rules relating to penance.—adv. Peniten′tially.—adj. Peniten′tiary relating to penance: penitential.—n. a penitent: an office at the court of Rome for examining and issuing secret bulls dispensations &c.: a book for guidance in imposing penances: a place for the performance of penance: a house of correction and punishment for offenders.—adv. Pen′itently.—Penitential garment a rough garment worn for penance; Penitential psalms certain psalms suitable for being sung by penitents as the 6th 32d 38th 51st 102d 130th 143d.
手打:梅格
娱乐性解释：
adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.
编辑:帕梅拉
娱乐性解释：
From pen, meaning to write, and intent, meaning determination. One who determines for the right.
整理:朱莉安娜
例句:
- In this place is an altar dedicated to St. Dimas, the penitent thief. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- After a spacebreathless and spent in prayer, a penitent approached the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- She felt a touch on her arm, and met the penitent eye of Miss Kilroy. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The matron at the Reformatory had reported her to my lady as a sincerely penitent and thoroughly trustworthy girl. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- He was too penitent, too remorseful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- But he was very penitent indeed, and in a peculiar way--not in the lump, but by instalments. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Well, then, said Bois-Guilbert, I will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I can make no submissionI am grown neither humble nor penitent by what has passed. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- The surprise and its consequences would have been much less disagreeable to me if he had not been penitent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- He expressed no regret for what he had done which satisfied her; his style was not penitent, but haughty. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- I have seen all sorts, and I have seen you pretty often in season and out of season, abroad and at home, and I never see you so melancholy penitent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The monk hath some fair penitent to shrive to-night, that he is in such a hurry to depart, said De Bracy. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It is just leaning down to you, like a black priest to a blacker penitent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Out of this place she got the crown of thorns, the nails of the cross, the true Cross itself, and the cross of the penitent thief. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The penitent kiss was better than a world of words, and John had her on his knee in a minute, saying tenderly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Holy men have bidden penitents like you to hasten their path upward by penance, self-denial, and difficult good works. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Thy penitents, father, have made a long shrift--it is the better for them, since it is the last they shall ever make. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
校对:雷明顿