penitence

penitence
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Contrition
Nouns
1. penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse, regret.
2. self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation; pangs, qualms, prickings, twinge, or voice of conscience; awakened conscience.
3. acknowledgment, confession (See disclosure); apology, penance, atonement; recantation.
4. penitent, Magdalene, prodigal son, a sadder and a wiser man.
Verbs — repent, be penitent, be sorry for; rue; regret, think better of; recant; plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; confess oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess (see disclosure); humble oneself; beg pardon, apologize, do penance (see atonement).
Adjectives — penitent, regretful, regretting, sorry, contrite; regrettable, lamentable.
Quotations — Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid (William Cowper), To regret deeply is to live afresh (Henry Thoreau), Of all the means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful (E. M. Forster).
Antonyms, see impenitence.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. remorse, repentance, contrition; see penance 1 , 2 , regret 1 , repentance .
See Synonym Study at repentance .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
repentance, sorrow, contrition, remorse, regret, penance, compunction, shame, self-reproach, regret.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A feeling of regret for one's sins or misdeeds: compunction, contriteness, contrition, peni-tency, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, rue. Theology: attrition. See REGRET.

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