penitence

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• Let them retire from public life and reflect with penitence on what we have seen today.

• Could the largest living icon of communism really be on the verge of penitence?

• Yet she still fasted, in penitence, and ministered to other sick people and to the elderly.

• “Everybody is redeemable if they show sufficient penitence,” former New York City Mayor Ed Koch said in an interview.

• She had no penitence, no consciousness of error or offence; no knowledge of any one circumstance but that he was gone.

• There were other rebellions against God during this time of penitence.

• My tears are not those of penitence; I do not weep for my sinfulness; I can neither think nor feel in this confusion.

• He left him, however, showing very little evidence of penitence, and entertaining for him very little hope.

• Thus we have seven different degrees of penitence, and he who neglects them all must suffer in the world to come.