| 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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