Contrite
[kən'traɪt;'kɒntraɪt] or [kən'traɪt]
Definition
(adj.) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses .
Editor: Rae--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Thoroughly bruised or broken.
(a.) Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.
(n.) A contrite person.
(v.) In a contrite manner.
Typist: Stanley
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Penitent, repentant, humble, self-convicted, broken in spirit.
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Definition
adj. broken-hearted for sin: penitent.—adv. Con′tritely.—ns. Con′triteness; Contri′tion deep sorrow for sin: remorse.
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Examples
- As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him complain. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Its sacrifice was a broken and a contrite heart. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There stood Shirley in the gallery, looking contrite, ashamed, sorry as any repentant child. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Instead of hating you I could, I think, mourn for and pity you, if you were contrite, and would confess all. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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