How To Use penitence In A Sentence
- From a religious angle it is about seeking penitence; irreligiously we look behind at what we could have done better.
- «On ne va pas maintenant commencer des séances de pénitence nationale», a-t-il dit. Archive 2007-06-01
- So he ate and drank and made merry and took his pleasure and gave gifts of gear and coin and was profuse with gold and addrest himself up to eating fowls and breaking the seals of wine-flasks and listening to the giggle of the daughter of the vine, as she gurgled from the flagon and enjoying the jingle of the singing-girls; nor did he give over this way of life, till his wealth was wasted and the case worsened and all his goods went from him and he bit his hands284 in bitter penitence. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- This Ash Wednesday text by Brian Wren invokes the Holy Spirit to help us through this time of penitence and self-examination.
- The rituals of confession, penitence and absolution provided the time-honoured solutions.
- I have written this account in penitence and in grief, as a man who failed to raise his pig, and to explain my deviation from the classic course of so many raised pigs. The Animal Kingdom
- -- That this expresses a positive divine act, by which those who wilfully close their eyes and harden their hearts against the truth are judicially shut up in their unbelief and impenitence, is admitted by all candid critics [as Olshausen], though many of them think it necessary to contend that this is in no way inconsistent with the liberty of the human will, which of course it is not. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- The idea of the Pyrenees is very charming, and I do not wonder Mrs. Malkin inclines thither, though I remember that when I was there, great as was my admiration for them, I felt rather as I was guilty of infidelity to the Alps all the time and made haste back to the latter, with something of penitence in delight at being once more upon my mountains. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
- There was something strange, almost timeless, about this stream of people walking down where the road had been, not angry, not complaining, as though paying penitence for crimes no one could identify.
- What ... so I should, uh, flagellate myself in penitence? Authorial Unintention