Thesaurus / penitent
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Messages also came from “los arrepentidos,” the penitents—people who said they’d been involved in the burials and were moved to confess.
THE MOTHERS OF MEXICO’S MISSING USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO SEARCH FOR MASS GRAVESCHANTAL FLORESOCTOBER 11, 2022MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe administrator’s caravan charted a penitent itinerary along the Gulf Coast, calling on communities of color that the EPA has historically failed to protect.
THE EPA ADMINISTRATOR VISITED CANCER-CAUSING AIR POLLUTION HOT SPOTS HIGHLIGHTED BY PROPUBLICA AND PROMISED REFORMSBY AVA KOFMANNOVEMBER 24, 2021PROPUBLICAThey are unquestionably penitent now; but then, you know, they have the recollection of very recent suffering fresh upon them.
THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENSNote that the penitent is here supposed to address his own parish-priest.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERIn this capacity, he assisted at the public confession of his penitent, Mme. Graslin, in the summer of 1844.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHEIt was also, probably, designed as a protest against the rigour of the Novatians in refusing reconciliation to penitent apostates.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROWDiscussions of the relative merits of The Fair Penitent and its source have been almost invariably acrimonious.
THE FATAL DOWRYPHILIP MASSINGERIn spite of his words and his elaborately penitent expression, Clara only partially understood him.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTThe first figure which appears is a veiled penitent bearing the standard of the Sodality.
BELGIUMGEORGE W. T. (GEORGE WILLIAM THOMSON) OMONDOnly one boy sympathised with him, but he did so deeply—poor little penitent Vernon.
ERIC, OR LITTLE BY LITTLEFREDERIC W. FARRARWORDS RELATED TO PENITENT
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