contrite

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions.

   “The Lord will happineſs divine / On contrite hearts beſtow : / Then tell me, gracious God, is mine / A contrite heart, or no ?”

2. sıfat Thoroughly bruised or broken.
3. isim A contrite person; a penitent.

   “Secondly, that even where contrition or inward repentance doth cleanſe without abſolution ; the reaſon why it cometh ſo to paſs, is, becauſe ſuch contrites intend and deſire Abſolution, though they have it not.”