penitential
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Weeks later, during the penitential Yom Kippur prayers in a small Berlin synagogue, Rosenzweig reversed his decision.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
It also marks the beginning of the penitential Lenten season.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024
In the eyes of the German public, Stadler's guilty plea did not look particularly penitential.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023
In songs such as the welcome-to-hell “School Song” and “Bruce,” recounting a penitential cake-eating challenge, the ensemble dances through the hallways and assembly rooms with dizzying élan.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2022
"Read the fifty-first psalm, my daughter; it was the penitential psalm in England in my beginnings," Stephen Hopkins said, and Constance read it in a low voice, which she dared not raise, lest it break.
From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames
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