contrition in English

noun
1
the state of feeling remorseful and penitent.
A double killer had shown no remorse or contrition for murdering two drug dealers in his home, a judge said yesterday as he imposed concurrent life sentences.

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1. Put your hands together in contrition.

2. Arising from or expressing contrition: Contrite words.

3. * attrit * attritional * attritionary * Attritive * attrition damage Related terms * contrition Anagrams * backfill

4. She forgave him because his contrition was real.

5. A synonym for Compunction is contrition. 3 letters

6. Nouns for Contrite include Contrite, Contriteness, Contrites, contrition and contritions

7. Blankfein was clearly trying to placate the locals and show some kind of contrition.

8. Nouns for contrite include contrite, contriteness, contrites, contrition and Contritions

9. In contrition she expatiated on the beauty of the garden.

10. The name we give to this spiritual condition is contrition.

11. He began softly to mutter the final act of contrition to himself.

12. The next day he'd be full of contrition, weeping and begging forgiveness.

13. Through her own contrition, Karen learned that she herself was weak and afraid.

14. Confession to God must be coupled with contrition and “fruits that befit repentance.”

15. For a leader to express contrition, there needs to be a good, strong reason.

16. In Christianity, contrition or Contriteness (from the Latin contritus 'ground to pieces', i.e

17. His press conference on Wednesday was full of conciliation that bordered on contrition.

18. Still, to be able to die with no special contrition, not having been slaughtered, or enslaved.

19. It is contrition and faith and love that enable the soul to receive wisdom from heaven.

20. I had put on a show of contrition all day, and behind it had been incomprehension and fright.

21. Hamlet seeks contrition and absolves himself of guilt before he dies; Claudius receives no absolution and seeks none.

22. To show contrition for failures to provide price lists to consumers, offenders would volunteer payments to the Treasury.

23. When we repent, we feel deep regret, or contrition, over something we have done or have failed to do.

24. Mercy should be shown to the contrite, but the community needed to be reassured that the contrition was genuine.

25. In circumstances when words are inappropriate or impractical, the apology may take the form of an elaborate pantomime of contrition.

26. When he was a young man, Jim thought of Lent as a season of contrition, spiritual discipline and personal purification.

27. Apologies definition: an oral or written expression of regret or contrition for a fault or failing Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

28. Compunction definition, a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse

29. Acte translation in French - English Reverso dictionary, see also 'Acte d'accusation',Acte de baptême',Acte de contrition',Acte de foi', examples, definition, conjugation

30. Active voice, activewear, activin, activism, activist, Activities, activity, activity of daily living, activize, acto, act of contrition Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged …

31. Bloodlust is the ticket and contrition is fraud You’ll have a hell of a time crawling back to the start Build me a cradle and make it swing deep

32. Instead of self-victimizing and self- Aggrandizing, instead of being spiteful and vindictive, President Trump could have used his nationally televised speech to show some contrition and unite the nation.

33. In ecclesiastical usage "Compunction" has a wider connotation and is found more frequently in the works of the Fathers of the Church than the later theological term "contrition," though both are employed, often as synonyms, primarily to express sorrow felt for sin.

34. Con‧trite /ˈkɒntraɪt $ ˈkɑːn-/ adjective formal feeling guilty and sorry for something bad that you have done a contrite apology —Contritely adverb —contrition /kənˈtrɪʃən/ noun [ uncountable] Examples from the Corpus contrite • Her tone was contrite and I thought Puddy was going to get all choked up.

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36. Acclamation - Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Actus Contritionis - Act of Contrition - Deus meus, ex toto corde poenitet me omnium Agnus Dei - Lamb of God - Agnus Dei, quitollis peccata mundi: miserere Ave Maria - Hail Mary - Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.Benedicta Benedictio Mensae - Blessing Before and After Meals - Benedic, Domine, nos et …

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38. " The Apology is more than a reckoning with a man long dead; it's a healing exploration of how survivors can recover from sexual abuse." - USA Today, "Five Must-Read Books" "For those men--the famous and the unknown-- The Apology is a blueprint of contrition." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post

39. Mid-14c., "remorse, contrition (for wrongdoing, as a means of attaining forgiveness of one;s sins)," from Old French Compunction (12c., Modern French componction), from Late Latin Compunctionem (nominative compunctio) "remorse; a stinging or pricking" (of the conscience), noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin compungere "to severely prick, sting," from com-, here

40. Compunction (n.) mid-14c., "remorse, contrition (for wrongdoing, as a means of attaining forgiveness of one;s sins)," from Old French Compunction (12c., Modern French componction), from Late Latin Compunctionem (nominative compunctio) "remorse; a stinging or pricking" (of the conscience), noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin compungere "to severely prick, sting," from com-, here