 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
penitence
noun: remorse for your past conduct [syn: {repentance}, {penance}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Penitence \Pen"i*tence\, noun [F. p['e]nitence, L. paenitentia.
See {Penitent}, and cf. {Penance}.]
The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition
of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance;
contrition. ''Penitence of his old guilt.'' --Chaucer.
Death is deferred, and penitenance has room
To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom. --Dryden.
Syn: Repentance; contrition; compunction.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "penitence":
Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, abject apology, acknowledgment,
anguish, apology, asceticism, attrition, breast-beating,
change of heart, cold purgatorial fires, compunction, confession,
contriteness, contrition, deathbed repentance, debasement,
degradation, distress, excuse, fasting, flagellation, grief,
hair shirt, heartfelt apology, humbling, humiliation, lustration,
maceration, mea culpa, mortification, penance, penitential act,
penitential exercise, penitently, purgation, purgatory, qualm,
reformation, regret, regretfulness, regrets, remorse,
remorsefulness, repentance, rue, ruefulness, ruth,
sackcloth and ashes, sadness, saeta, scruple, self-accusation,
self-punishment, self-reproach, shame, sorrow, sorrowfulness,
wearing a hairshirt
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