0 the feeling of being sorry for something you have done because you feel it was wrong, or the act of showing this: --
1 regret for a mistake and willingness to correct it: --
He expressed his penitence for what he had done.
A little more penitence from him might go a long way.
Are we to sit on the stool of penitence and submit to policies with which we do not agree?
Of course, we do not want her to go about in ashes and tears and in a state of penitence.
Now comes a time of public accounting, and the sinner is brought to penitence.
She might have displayed some semblance of penitence.
I did not regard that evidence of repentance: as invalid because he did not yet commit himself to overall penitence for his misdeeds.
They were there, we read, in their thousands, their hearts aglow with religious fervour and their eyes red with the tears of penitence.
She came boldly up, trusting in forgiveness, and poured out on his head a kind of spikenard76 testifying from the depth of her heart to the intensity of her penitence.
