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contrition

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repentance
noun. feeling bad for past action
  • attrition
  • compunction
  • conscience
  • contriteness
  • contrition
  • grief
  • guilt
  • penitence
  • penitency
  • regret
  • remorse
  • rue
  • ruth
  • self-reproach
  • sorriness
  • sorrow

shame
noun. disgrace, embarrassment
  • abashment
  • bad conscience
  • blot
  • chagrin
  • compunction
  • confusion
  • contempt
  • contrition
  • degradation
  • derision
  • discomposure
  • discredit
  • disesteem
  • dishonor
  • disrepute
  • guilt
  • humiliation
  • ignominy
  • ill repute
  • infamy
  • irritation
  • loss of face
  • mortification
  • obloquy
  • odium
  • opprobrium
  • pang
  • pudency
  • remorse
  • reproach
  • scandal
  • self-disgust
  • self-reproach
  • self-reproof
  • shamefacedness
  • skeleton in the cupboard
  • smear
  • stigma
  • stupefaction
  • treachery

penitency
noun. penitence
  • anguish
  • attrition
  • compunction
  • contriteness
  • contrition
  • debasement
  • degradation
  • distress
  • grief
  • humbling
  • humiliation
  • penance
  • qualm
  • regret
  • remorse
  • remorsefulness
  • repentance
  • rue
  • ruefulness
  • ruth
  • sadness
  • scruple
  • self-castigation
  • self-condemnation
  • self-flagellation
  • self-punishment
  • self-reproach

remorsefulness
noun. penitence
  • anguish
  • attrition
  • compunction
  • contriteness
  • contrition
  • debasement
  • degradation
  • distress
  • grief
  • humbling
  • humiliation
  • penance
  • penitency
  • qualm
  • regret
  • remorse
  • repentance
  • rue
  • ruefulness
  • ruth
  • sadness
  • scruple
  • self-castigation
  • self-condemnation
  • self-flagellation
  • self-punishment
  • self-reproach
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Word Origin & History

contrition c.1300, from O.Fr. contricium, from L. contritionem, noun of action from conterere (see contrite).

Example Sentences for contrition

In my contrition I had put forth my hand as I moved toward him.

Humiliation and contrition have ever been the conditions of revival.

May I ask,” she said, with some contrition roused by his care of her, “where you are going?

I will wait while you make an act of contrition for your sins.

But he saw nothing back of the letter but friendship and contrition.

In an instant the mockery in him was quenched in contrition.

Write to her if you will—make your act of contrition by letter.

What expressions of contrition could have served me without a purpose of amendment?

Her behaviour in prison was with the utmost signs of contrition.

Nor would she let him see that she understood the contrition working in him.

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