penitence
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Demski agrees to a point - when the company started off, many of its first beers had aggressive names such as Anger, Penitence, Distorter and Doom Slayer, and Holewczynski created dark labels to match.
From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2016
Penitence finally arrived at the six-minute mark, when forward Marcus Johansson fumbled Brouwer’s errant pass off his skate and sparked an odd-man rush the other way.
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2015
Penitence was seriously enacted; payments were made; serious apologies were enacted.
From Time • May 25, 2014
In Joachim Patinir’s triptych “The Penitence of Saint Jerome,” from around 1518, a panorama of mountain lakes stretching to the lambent horizon dwarfs the religious dramas transpiring within it.
From New York Times • May 23, 2013
The place was only visible from; the belfry of the Chapel of the Holy Penitence nearby; it would do very well.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing penitence
The Crucible
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A Christmas Carol
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