penitential

How To Use penitential In A Sentence

• As a priest, as a man, after the long penitential years and the challenges of her own temperament, she was at ease. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
• They learn of such circumstances through a variety of church communications, including prayer requests, requests for pastoral counsel, penitential communications, and even church gossip.
• It seems to a bemused outsider at times as if the country must have its own cultural variant of masochistic puritanism, a collective desire for the penitential abnegation of prosperity and all its works.
• She asked Mary Livingston, whom she greeted almost penitentially, to order her a bath of asses 'milk and to request a bread porridge for her, laced with cinnamon and sugar. Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
• Rose expresses joy that half a penitential season is over, and is used on the 3rd Sunday of Advent and 4th Sunday of Lent.
• Shuffling penitentially on your knees, bending and scraping with dustpan and brush while vicious pine needles perforate your kneecaps...it's almost enough to make you feel like Christmas might, in a twisted way, be the descendent of some sort of primitive religious festival. After the Binge Must Come the Purge
• Lady's office, of the psalms in the office for the dead, of the gradual and seven penitential psalms, and of the psalms sung at vespers and complin, is excellent. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
• wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words
• Our heads, shoulders, and hands were penitentially kissed, and presently the fellows returned to bind up their hurts in dirty rags. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• Some will say it was a remarkable act of self denial akin to the penitential days of renunciation in Biblical times.