penitents in English

noun
1
a person who repents their sins or wrongdoings and (in the Christian Church) seeks forgiveness from God.
It would entail suspension from Eucharistic communion and taking one's seat in a special part of the church building reserved for penitents .

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1. Penitents shrieked and the healed cried in rapture.

2. 18 At first they were protected by Catholic rulers, and seen as penitents entitled to alms and succour.

3. Confessional, in Roman Catholic churches, box cabinet or stall in which the priest sits to hear the confessions of penitents

4. Sincere penitents cannot get through their confessions at a gallop; they are constrained to use many Bemoanings, for their swarming sins smite them with so innumerable griefs

5. Blessed be the ever present God that he is upon the spot where the Bemoanings of penitents are heard, and bends a gracious ear to the cry of his children