NOUN | feeling | penitence, repentance, penance | remorse for your past conduct |
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Meaning | remorse for your past conduct. | |
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Synonyms | repentance, penance | |
Broader | compunction, remorse, self-reproach | A feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) |
Spanish | arrepentimiento, penitencia | |
Catalan | penediment, penitència | |
Adjectives | penitent | feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds |
penitential | showing or constituting / constituting penance | |
penitentiary | used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers |
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