penitence

Roget-categorie 950

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.3. Moral conditions

#950. Penitence

zelfstandig naamwoord

penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse — regret etc. 833.
self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation — stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience^†, twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience — compunctious visitings of nature^†.
acknowledgment, confession etc. (disclosure) 529 — apology etc. 952 — recantation etc. 607 — penance etc. 952 — resipiscence^†.
awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae [Lat.], stool of repentance, cuttystool^†.
penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, a sadder and a wiser man" [Coleridge].

werkwoord

repent, be sorry for — be penitent etc. adj. — rue — regret etc. 833 — think better of — recant etc. 607 — knock under etc. (submit) 725 — plead guilty — sing miserere [Lat.], sing de profundis [Lat.] — cry peccavi — own oneself in the wrong — acknowledge, confess &c., (disclose) 529 — humble oneself — beg pardon etc. (apologize) 952 — turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin — reclaim — repent in sackcloth and ashes &c., (do penance) 952 — learn by experience.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

penitent — repenting etc. v. — repentant, contrite — conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken — self-accusing, self-convicted.
penitential, penitentiary — reclaimed, reborn — not hardened — unhardened^†.

bijwoord

mea culpa.

uitdrukking

peccavi — erubuit [Lat.] — salva res est [Lat.] [Terence]; Tu l'as voulu [Fr.], Georges Dandin — and wet his grave with my repentant tears" [Richard III].

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