PENITENT vs RUEFUL: NOUN
- (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
- One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
- Eccles., one who makes confession of sin and undergoes, under priestly direction, the ecclesiastical discipline prescribed for its absolution.
- One who repents, or is sorry for sin, transgression, or offending; a contrite or repentant person.
- One who is penitent.
- N/A
PENITENT vs RUEFUL: ADJECTIVE
- Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
- Feeling or expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins; contrite.
- 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.
- Doing penance.
- Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
- Causing, feeling, or expressing sorrow or regret.
- Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
- Expressing sorrow.
- Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.
- Inspiring pity or compassion.
PENITENT vs RUEFUL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Sorry for sin or for offense committed; contrite; troubled by a sense of guilt and resolved on amendment; repentant.
- Doing penance; suffering.
- Synonyms Doleful, lugubrious, regretful.
- Expressive of regret, sorrow, or misfortune; mournful; sad; melancholy; lugubrious.
- Worthy of pity or sorrow; lamentable; pitiable; deplorable; sorry.
- . Full of pity or compassion; pitying.
PENITENT vs RUEFUL: RELATED WORDS
- Forgiveness, Confessor, Absolution, Contrition, Sinner, Penance, Penitence, Repentance, Magdalen, Sorry, Rueful, Remorseful, Penitential, Contrite, Repentant
- Poignant, Sorrowful, Lugubrious, Mournful, Doleful, Sardonic, Melancholy, Wry, Wistful, Sad, Remorseful, Sorry, Repentant, Penitent, Contrite
PENITENT vs RUEFUL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Supplication, Atonement, Venial sin, Forgiveness, Confessor, Contrition, Sinner, Penance, Repentance, Sorry, Rueful, Remorseful, Penitential, Contrite, Repentant
- Poignant, Sorrowful, Lugubrious, Mournful, Doleful, Sardonic, Melancholy, Wry, Wistful, Sad, Remorseful, Sorry, Repentant, Penitent, Contrite
PENITENT vs RUEFUL: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- What are broken spirits and penitent hearts to them?
- Saint Aralor the Penitent, Patron of Tanners and Miners.
- If the penitent consents, may his confession be divulged?
- Christ and the Penitent Sinners by Gerard Seghers Cir.
- There is no world for the penitent and regretful.
- The murmurers, being penitent; or others for fear.
- Holy Spirit and the penitent soul is made.
- If the penitent knowingly conceal any mortal sin, then the confession is invalid and the penitent incurs another sin: sacrilege.
- Nor can a priest absolve a penitent who fully intends to continue acting against Church teaching which the penitent understands.
- Apothecaries; Casamicciola, Italy; contemplative life; contemplatives; converts; druggists; glove makers; hairdressers; hairstylists; penitent sinners; penitent women; people ridiculed for their piety
- Brandon snorted in rueful amusement at the turn of his thoughts: chains, strangulation.
- And he did for several strokes, looking at her with rueful eagerness.
- West muttered, although the corner of his mouth twitched with rueful amusement.
- Then a rueful smile quirked up the corner of her mouth.
- But all invite sometimes rueful smiles or chuckles of recognition.
- The Rueful Axe from Rimrock Burrow and return it.
- She sighed, and then gave Sarah a rueful smile.
- Jack, who is departing with a rueful countenance.
- The rueful remark held an undertone of bitterness.
- The life settlement investments have some investors rueful.
PENITENT vs RUEFUL: QUESTIONS
- What does the penitent pray to the Cross and the book?
- Was Theophilus the penitent the first man to sell his soul?
- How do you get the penitent to light the lighthouse?
- Why did the priest refuse the Penitent's Confession?
- What does the penitent thief ask Jesus to do for Dismas?
- What is the earliest version of La Tour's Penitent Magdalens?
- Why is the penitent supposed to address his own parish priest?
- How does the penitent begin sacramental confession?
- What does the very sight of the Breton girl awaken rueful thoughts?