penitence

[Pen·i*tence]

Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone feels bad about it afterward, and if you’re someone who has regretted something you did, that sorrowful feeling was penitence.

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The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition.

Noun
remorse for your past conduct


n.
The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition.


Penitence

Pen"i*tence , n. [F. p'82nitence, L. paenitentia. See Penitent, and cf. Penance.] The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition. "Penitence of his old guilt." Chaucer.
Death is deferred, and penitenance has room To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom.
Syn. -- Repentance; contrition; compunction.

The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition.

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