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Impenitent :: Impenitent (n.) One who is not penitent.

Penitent :: Penitent (n.) One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him..

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

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (a.) Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation..

Kneeler :: Kneeler (n.) A name given to certain catechumens and penitents who were permitted to join only in parts of church worship.

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge..

Impenitently :: Impenitently (adv.) Without repentance.

Litany :: Litany (n.) A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character..

Repentingly :: Repentingly (adv.) With repentance; penitently.

Penitentiaries :: Penitentiaries (pl. ) of Penitentiar.

Penitent :: Penitent (a.) Doing penance.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (a.) Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..

Penitently :: Penitently (adv.) In a penitent manner.

Repentance :: Repentance (n.) The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin..

Ash Wednesday :: Ash Wednesday () The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents..

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.

Penitentiaryship :: Penitentiaryship (n.) The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court.

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