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US
/ˌpɛnɪˈtɛntʃɝi/
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[ UK /pˌɛnɪtˈɛnʃjəɹi/ ]
[ UK /pˌɛnɪtˈɛnʃjəɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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showing or constituting penance
penitential tears
wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words -
used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers
penitentiary institutions
NOUN
- a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
How To Use penitentiary In A Sentence
- In Kingston, we check out the museum at the penitentiary, where convicts have been housed for well over 100 years.
- Here is Fleece Johnson, a woolly-hatted veteran of Kentucky State Penitentiary, gravely recalling the good old days: In this prison, booty was more important than food. Prison Porn
- On the entrance of His Holiness into the [Pauline] chapel, illuminated by 567 wax candles, the Verbum Caro is sung, and on arriving at the altar the Pope delivers the chalice containing the Sacrament to the Cardinal deacon who deposits it in the sepulchre where it is incensed by the Pope; Monsignor Sacrista locks the sepulchre and delivers the key to the Cardinal Penitentiary who is to officiate on the following day. Rare Images of Holy Thursday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel and a Description of the Papal Ceremonies of those Times
- Boyd did six years in a federal penitentiary for refusing to pay his income tax, came out and found religion. WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
- This Democratic official was sent to jail for twelve months, and Blackman, who was a Democratic local heeler, was at the same term convicted of stealing an ox, the property of Dr. Vick, and sent to the Penitentiary for one year. People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898.
- he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary
- Susan, when you first pull up at the institute as they call it, the jail, the penitentiary, everything I imagine that you have been through before kind of fades away as you realize you're going to be confined behind bars.
- Hank Grotowski is a corrections officer heading the death row detail of a southern U.S. penitentiary.
- The sentence of imprisonment of any person convicted of an offense shall commence to run from the date on which such person is received at the penitentiary, reformatory, or jail for service of such sentence.
- It is formed of the cardinal penitentiary, the theologian, the datary, the corrector, the sealer (sigillatore), and the canonist, the secretary also taking part in it, but without a vote. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock