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Penitence Act of Contrition prayer of atonement said after making one’s confession. [Christianity: Misc.] former Lady Laurentini; a penitent nun. [Br. Lit.: The Mysteries of Udolpho, Freeman, 4] telling his tale is penance for his guilt. [Br. Poetry: Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”] site of Henry IV’s submission to Pope Gregory VII (1077). [Eur. Hist.: Grun, 140] Puritan minister publicly atones for sin of adultery. [Am. Lit.: The Scarlet Letter] in the Apocryphal gospels, the penitent thief. [Christianity: Benét, 274]
sixth month of Jewish year; month of repentance. [Judaism: Wigoder, 174] groups of Christians who practised public flagellation as penance. [Christian Hist.: NCE, 959] Holy Roman Emperor who begged forgiveness from the Pope at Canossa. [Eur. Hist.: Benét, 456] for having mistakenly killed his parents, atones by becoming a beggar and helping the wretched. [Christ. Leg.: Attwater] abjectly cleans Jesus’s feet with tears; dries them with her hair. [N.T.: Luke 7:37–50] townspeople repented for wickedness by fasting and donning sackcloth. [O.T.: Jonah 3:5–10] dancing-girl converts to solitary, saintly ways. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 272] Catholic sacrament, whereby the penitent is absolved of sins by the confessor. [Christianity: NCE, 2096] black fur represents repentance. [Heraldry: Halberts, 37] traditional garb of contrition. [O.T.: Jonah 3:6; Esther 4:1–3; N.T.: Matthew 11:21] sent into wilderness bearing sins of Israelites. [O.T.: Leviticus 16:8–22] seeks divine forgiveness in night of wild prayer. [Am. Lit.: Scarlet Sister Mary] always present in pictures of Mary Magdalene repenting. [Christian Art: de Bles, 29] seeking salvation, takes pilgrimage to Rome. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Tannhauser, Westerman, 211] after sinful lifetime, eleventh-hour repentance saves his soul. [Span. Lit.: Don Juan Tenorio] did public penance before St. Ambrose. [Rom. Hist.: EB, 18:272–273] undertaken as penance for slaying his children. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Hall, 148] Christian liturgical color; worn during Lent and Advent. [Color Symbolism: Jobes, 357] most sacred Hebrew holy day; the day of atonement. [Judaism: NCE, 182] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Naked, would I like to see them: for beauty alone should preach penitence. Of course, a minute or so later I would realise wrathfully that it was all a lie, a revolting lie, an affected lie, that is, all this penitence, this emotion, these vows of reform. The penitence of his countrymen is still waiting expression, but it may come to that when they have recurred to the evidences of his offence in their present shape. |
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