penitence
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The small seven-year-old beginnings of such particular humanities I mastered with tolerable success, but if I may judge from the frequency of my penitences, humanity in general was not instilled into me without considerable trouble.
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
The Roman Catholics have expiations which are called "penitences."
From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
After many minor falls and penitences and relapses, he seemed at length to have settled down.
From The Three Brontës by Sinclair, May
Jesus' conscience has creative power, and reproduces its sensitiveness in theirs; they are born into a life of new sympathies and obligations and penitences.
From Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Coffin, Henry Sloane
To overlook that startling fact is to overlook the very element which has made David’s Psalms the text-book for all human weaknesses, penitences, sorrows, struggles, aspirations, for nigh three thousand years.
From David by Kingsley, Charles
Vocabulary lists containing penitence
The Crucible
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A Christmas Carol
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