adjective. Feeling or expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins; contrite.

noun. One who is penitent.

noun. A person performing penance under the direction of a confessor.

Sorry for sin or for offense committed; contrite; troubled by a sense of guilt and resolved on amendment; repentant.

Doing penance; suffering.

noun. One who repents, or is sorry for sin, transgression, or offending; a contrite or repentant person.

noun. Eccles., one who makes confession of sin and undergoes, under priestly direction, the ecclesiastical discipline prescribed for its absolution.

noun. One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.

noun. One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.

noun. One under the direction of a confessor.

adjective. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.

adjective. Doing penance.

adjective. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.

adjective. Doing penance.

noun. One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his or her transgressions.

noun. One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.

noun. One under the direction of a confessor.

adjective. feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds

noun. (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)

"The miniature of Marguerite is so beautiful because of her smile, why is she described as a penitent?"

penitents  

contrite  penitential  penitentiary  remorseful  rueful  

pen  penance  penitence  penitentiary  repent  

abject  affectionate  anguished  broken-hearted  contrition  

Magdalen  abject  apologetic  compunctious  confessor