How To Use Contrition In A Sentence
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The goalie retreated, with head bowed in contrition, as the ref showed him the yellow card.
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I can be quite hard and cruel sometimes, I know that, but I do feel contrition and try to make amends.
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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
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When did liturgies of contrition and dependence become examples of negative thinking?
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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.
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Attrition or Imperfect Contrition (Lat. attero, "to wear away by rubbing"; p.part. attritus).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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To show contrition for failures to provide price lists to consumers, offenders would volunteer payments to the Treasury.
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We should avoid, however, acts of apparent contrition that are, in fact, acts of detraction against our forebears in the faith.
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Come back after about, ooh, a decade of humility and contrition.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hollowness of his contrition was particular acute when he stumbled over the carefully prepared words where he was to tell the media that he had learnt an important lesson about his responsibility as a role model for kids.
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His contrition for chemical inhumanity is shaded in the gloom of cosmic insecurity.
Joshua Lederberg - Banquet Speech
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Before there was suspicion, with the citation of his criminal behavior and apparent lack of remorse and contrition and humility etc., there is proof of at least past malignance.
Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
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He owned with contrition that his irregularities and his extravagance had already wasted a large part of his mother's little fortune.
Vanity Fair
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In contrast, and in contrition, I must highly recommend an excellent traditional platformer that recently became available on Virtual Console; I didn't pick it up until last night.
Archive 2008-03-01
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And those expressive eyes and cowered postures exhibit true contrition on their part.
Christianity Today
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Hitherto my whole bent had been towards pale, remote, and evanescent; the water-colour world Louis, the leafy recesses of Malory, l the twilight of Y eats. ilt iron in Malory, the tragedy of contrition, I did not yet at all L
Surprised by Joy
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Consequently I do not hesitate to say that the Reformation, in rejecting contrition, cavilling over the word metanoia, attributing to faith alone the virtue of justification, deconsecrating repentance in short, took a step backward and utterly failed to recognize the law of progress.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
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Consequently I do not hesitate to say that the Reformation, in rejecting contrition, cavilling over the word metanoia, attributing to faith alone the virtue of justification, deconsecrating repentance in short, took a step backward and utterly failed to recognize the law of progress.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
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For instance; that after the long course of a most lewd and flagitious life, a man may be reconciled to God, and have his sins forgiven at the last gasp, upon confession of them to the priest, with that imperfect degree of contrition for them, which they call attrition, together with the absolution of the priest.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 04.
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Such prisoners will probably not express contrition or remorse or sympathy for any victim.
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This process involves confession to a priest, acts of contrition, receiving absolution, and performing works of satisfaction.
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The case of the latter was not without its pathos, from the deep contrition he expressed before his execution; the distressing interest which his mistress is said to have taken in his fate, and the lamentable delusion under which he laboured, which is more particularly unfolded in his confession, in the appendix marked (L.) *
Negro Plot. An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection among a Portion of the Blacks of the City of Charleston, South Carolina
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All that acknowledging and bewailing of the manifold sins of wickedness made this extended act of contrition a bit of a downer.
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Rocker's apparent contrition is merely a signal that another episode is on the way.
Taking out the crystal ball for second half
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It is not the same where confession and contrition are concerned; but satisfaction has to do with the exterior act, and here one can make use of instruments, a category under which friends are included.
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Such prisoners will probably not express contrition or remorse or sympathy for any victim.
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I said that my affections were already engaged: yet I meant you to believe, as you did, that I loved another; and the thought of the deception, for it _was deception_, has caused me ceaseless contrition.
Fairy Fingers A Novel
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BTW, "contrition" is precisely what rankles for most of the naysayers.
Release of CIA interrogation report delayed
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If the wrongdoer has come to the point of realizing his wrong, then one hopes there will be remorse, or at least some contrition or sorrow.
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In circumstances when words are inappropriate or impractical, the apology may take the form of an elaborate pantomime of contrition.
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Ophelia wishes to remind the Queen of the sorrow and contrition she ought to feel for her unlawful marriage; and that she may wear her rue with peculiar propriety on Sundays, when she solicits pardon for the crime which she has so much occasion to _rue_ and repent of.
Hamlet
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Brookins apologized for his lapse of aldermanic etiquette, but his contrition was not enough to win support for a 50-acre shopping center that also would include an Office Depot and a Lowe's home-improvement store.
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Some of them had been long known in the pharmacopoeia of the Old World; and others, in the early days of the country, had been adopted by the first settlers from the Indian medicine-men, though with fear and even contrition, because these wild doctors were supposed to draw their pharmaceutic knowledge from no gracious source, the Black Man himself being the principal professor in their medical school.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
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He says that wronged individuals'may need to hear contrition or an apology from the perpetrator of crime before they feel able to forgive him '.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is beyond question that contrition or remorse are factors which will usually operate in the accused's favour; but not always.
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Those advisers who urged on him an expression of contrition as a way of finding closure met with a blank refusal.
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His expression tensed, lips held firmly shut over clenched teeth, then assumed a submissive position: head bowed, ears front and down, elbows out, and all fourteen fingers interlocked to show contrition.
Quozl
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An act of perfect contrition is essential to save our souls, when being in danger of death and in a state of mortal sin we cannot go to Confession.
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He began softly to mutter the final act of contrition to himself.
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Mitigating factors relating to the offender may include: the offender's age; clear evidence or remorse or contrition; a timely plea of guilt.
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He went up the steps and entered the downstairs hallway; he paused, full of contrition at the thought of Eva.
THE OUTSIDER
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Their success seemed to depend on their intensity, and their intensity depended on the rhetorical ability of the preacher to inspire a sense of contrition for past offenses.
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In the months to come, the United States will continue to encourage contrition from Lobo, while the Latin American holdouts will keep exploiting their political leverage over Honduras.
Daniel Altschuler: One Year After the Honduran Coup: Isolation, Insecurity, Impunity
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The _foundation_ of this temple may be laid in humility and contrition of spirit, wherein the inhabiter of eternity delighteth to dwell; we may refer the _porch_ to the mouth of a saint, wherein every holy Jacob erects the _pillars_ of God's praise, calling upon and blessing his name for received mercies; when songs of deliverance are uttered from the _doors_ of his lips.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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The word contrition itself in a moral sense is not of frequent occurrence in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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The never-ending show of contrition, pathos, sadness and regret is more than reality drama.
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Moreover, contrition must be continual, and a man must keep and hold a steadfast purpose to shrive himself and to amend his way of life.
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She had replaced the receiver before I could launch into my overwrought hymn of contrition.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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As Niebuhr observed, we "need a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom and power available to us" and "a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of both the enemy's demonry and our vanities.
Eliot Spitzer: The Need for Both Passion and Humility in Politics
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When we say the act of contrition, at least the old act of contrition, in the Catholic Church, we say, ‘I firmly resolve, with the help of thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance and to amend my life, amen.’
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He answers how he wishes to answer; he is contrite without offering contrition.
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‘Champions have to learn to play with pain - to handle their contrition with both dignity and courage,’ he told me.
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They sense that the back three of contrition, humility and honesty is a solid defence.
Times, Sunday Times
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To his teachers' fury, chastisement did not cause contrition but hilarity.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the sporting circus, even contrition is a polished performance
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The apology arrived 25 days after the incident, and Barrichello took delivery of it on his mobile phone, but it still counts as a rare act of contrition from the German.
Michael Schumacher sorry for putting squeeze on Rubens Barrichello
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His contrition and his guilt do not help to free him from his bondage, though.
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I have yet to hear any acts of contrition from the media or people like Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, who i held in passable esteem for what they said and why they said it.
Mind The Gap « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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In other areas, however, such public contrition has been sadly lacking.
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If they died without contrition they would go to hell, where prayers could not assist them.
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It was a noteworthy feature of your evidence that you are unrepentant and show not the least sign of contrition, preferring instead to blame everyone else, including the customers and their families and friends.
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Nothing could save him, for there was no contrition in his heart.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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'By that account,' said Lady Anne, 'which I believe to be just, her contrition is always ten times as great as her offence.'
Belinda
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A variation on this theme was that the prisoner had reformed or had shown sufficient contrition for their crime.
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Sadly, decency has been replaced in great measure by coarseness hence the absence of remorse or contrition.
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One side wants plaques and plaudits; the other demands contrition and recompense.
Times, Sunday Times
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And those expressive eyes and cowered postures exhibit true contrition on their part.
Christianity Today
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One senior party aide had a blunt message for those who shared their contrition with him last week.
Times, Sunday Times
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What if contrition is self-centered and selfish, aimed at securing forgiveness?
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One senior party aide had a blunt message for those who shared their contrition with him last week.
Times, Sunday Times
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If someone steals my pen and then asks me to forgive him, unless he returns my pen the sincerity of his contrition and confession will be considered to be nil.
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The offender may not demonstrate genuine, or even adequate, contrition or repentance.
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No one is sure that his own contrition is sincere; much less that he has attained full remission.
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I have yet to hear any acts of contrition from the media or people like Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, who i held in passable esteem for what they said and why they said it.
Mind The Gap « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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One side wants plaques and plaudits; the other demands contrition and recompense.
Times, Sunday Times
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The expression of contrition from Mr. Shimizu came a day after the Japanese government raised its assessment of the nuclear crisis to 7, the highest on an international scale, from 5.
Tepco Plans Compensation Payments
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Of course, asking Rose to dive headfirst into an act of contrition is like asking Anaheim Angels pitchers to feed dead-red fastballs to Bonds.
USATODAY.com - Time for Selig to relent, cut deal with Rose
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A lack of contrition would be, for example, if the defendant was purporting to express regret for his crimes in the courtroom, but simultaneously sending anonymous tweets to the effect that the trial is a sham, the judge is bought off, etc.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Subpoena to Twitter, Demanding Identification of Anonymous Critic of Corbett’s
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He owned with contrition that his irregularities and his extravagance had already wasted a large part of his mother's little fortune.
Vanity Fair
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Participation in these gatherings is simply not consonant with the depression and contrition that the mourner experiences.
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A double killer had shown no remorse or contrition for murdering two drug dealers in his home, a judge said yesterday as he imposed concurrent life sentences.
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Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without Church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without contrition.
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I thought of the cozier fall number hanging in the window at Intermix, but reasoned that minor suffering can be good for acts of contrition.
Lily Blau: Fashion and Faith: God, Gucci, and What Happened Along the Way
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This process involves confession to a priest, acts of contrition, receiving absolution, and performing works of satisfaction.
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Lincoln regularly used the language of scripture, but in a way that called both sides in the Civil War to contrition and repentance.
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Is there true contrition and sincere forgiveness, or has there been merely an exchange of lip service, a convenient pact to blur the past for the sake of a future which, in turn, lacks a clear vision?
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The ruling principle is that fear of sin precedes love of God, which leads to repentance (contrition).
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In Catholic theology, the requirements are: contrition, confession and satisfaction.
