contriteness

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Brown, who has filed grievances attempting to force the Raiders and Patriots to pay him about $40 million, seems to now hope that his latest contriteness will lead to another shot in the NFL.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2019

Goodell said he was satisfied with Rice’s contriteness.

From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2014

On both programs, he fended off his inquisitors with elliptical candor, contriteness and stock answers that sometimes strained credibility.

From Time Magazine Archive

He brought it off, the image of contriteness, the best he could— throughout the harshly trying next several weeks.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

He made his confession with much clearness and contriteness, educated his children in the fear of God, strove to have all the people of his country baptized, and lived an exemplary life.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de