MEANING
Expressing repentance or relating to practices intended to acknowledge and atone for wrongdoing.
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- penitential prayer
- penitential discipline
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A penitential prayer ended the long vigil.
She accepted the penitential discipline but refused to confess to an act she had not committed.
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- penitential
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a religious relation; degree language requires a meaningful context. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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