Usually means: Remorseful, seeking forgiveness for wrongdoing.
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  1. penitent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. penitent: Merriam-Webster
  3. penitent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. penitent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. penitent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. penitent: Vocabulary.com
  7. Penitent, penitent: Wordnik
  8. penitent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. penitent: Wiktionary
  10. penitent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. penitent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. penitent: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Penitent, penitent: Dictionary.com
  14. Penitent, The Penitent (film), The Penitent (play), The Penitent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Penitent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. penitent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. penitent: Rhymezone
  18. penitent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. penitent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. penitent: FreeDictionary.org
  21. penitent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. penitent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. penitent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. penitent: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt.
adjective:  Doing penance.
noun:  One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
noun:  One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
noun:  One under the direction of a confessor.

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