contrition

How To Use contrition In A Sentence

• The goalie retreated, with head bowed in contrition, as the ref showed him the yellow card.
• I can be quite hard and cruel sometimes, I know that, but I do feel contrition and try to make amends.
• It was accompanied by a voice so enchantingly tender and melodious, that its sounds fell on the heart of Osbert in balmy comfort: it seemed sent by Heaven to arrest his fate: – the storm of passion was hushed within him, and he dissolved in kind tears of pity and contrition. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
• When did liturgies of contrition and dependence become examples of negative thinking?
• What I don't understand about it is that I imagine that the forgiveness spoken about is forgiveness that is called for - and that is most typically where one understands the genuine contrition of the other person.
• Attrition or Imperfect Contrition (Lat. attero, "to wear away by rubbing"; p.part. attritus). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
• After, in the eleventh part of the canon of the mass the priest beateth his breast saying: Nobis quoque peccatoribus, etc., and that signifieth the contrition and repentance that the thief that hung on the cross at the right hand of God had, when he said: Memento mei domine cum veneris in regnum tuum, that is to say: Lord I pray thee that thou be remembered of me when thou comest into thy realm. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
• Contrition isn't much in fashion these days, but it's still a tonic for the guilty soul - and who amongst us doesn't bear regrets for at least a few decisions.
• What we call contrition is often only imperfect contrition -- that is, sorrow for our sins because we fear their punishment in Hell or dread the loss of Heaven. Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine
• Given the outrage which the discovery that a significant proportion of our MPs were living high on the hog at public expense caused, let us think a moment how we might to our eternal advantage deflect the outrage of our citizens (which, given the continuing lack of contrition of most MPs about their larcenies, is as yet unassuaged) from those undoubted swine onto the State as a whole. Let Us Destroy The Big State