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
It also marks the beginning of the penitential Lenten season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
In the eyes of the German public, Stadler's guilty plea did not look particularly penitential.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023
The trip to Canada has much less pomp: “A penitential pilgrimage,” Francis recently called it.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2022
Jacob's penitential discipline begins.—The deceiver is deceived, and made to feel in his own person the pain and disappointment which deceit causes.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix
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Vocabulary from Readings 1, Unit 7
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