penitent

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt.

   “Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite.”

2. sıfat Doing penance.

   “[…] But we that know what ’tis to faſt and pray, / Are penitent for your default to day.”

3. isim One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
4. isim One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.

   “Wamba, who defeated the Saracens in an attempt upon Spain, was deprived of the crown, because he had been clothed in the habit of a penitent, while labouring under the influence of poison, administered by the ambitious Erviga!”

5. isim One under the direction of a confessor.