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
In 2022, Pope Francis made a "penitential pilgrimage" across Canada, where he offered an apology to local tribal leaders.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
It also marks the beginning of the penitential Lenten season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
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
The penitential discipline, and the exhortations of the pulpit, diffused abroad an immeasurably higher sense of the importance of purity than Pagan antiquity had known.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Vocabulary from Readings 1, Unit 7
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