Usually means: Sincere remorse for wrongdoing, repentance.
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  1. contrition: Merriam-Webster
  2. contrition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contrition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contrition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contrition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contrition, contrition: Wordnik
  7. contrition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contrition: Wiktionary
  9. contrition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contrition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contrition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Contrition, contrition: Dictionary.com
  13. contrition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Contrition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. contrition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. contrition: Rhymezone
  17. Contrition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. contrition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. contrition: FreeDictionary.org
  20. contrition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. contrition: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Contrition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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  1. contrition: Legal dictionary

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  1. contrition: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Contrition: Catholic Encyclopedia

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  1. contrition: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contrition)

noun:  The state of being contrite; sincere penitence or remorse.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of grinding or rubbing to powder.

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