penitential
adjective
of, pertaining to, proceeding from, or expressive of penitence or repentance.
penitentially
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a word derived from
penitential.
Example Sentences
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Extremely devout pilgrims, Zubryzycki relates, might wander the earth penitentially holding their arms above their heads or sleeping on a bed of nails.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2018
At over three and a half hours, the two-concert performance felt long, sometimes penitentially so in the secular sterility of Merkin Concert Hall.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2016
The Emperor Henry IV knelt penitentially in the snows of Canossa before Pope Gregory VII; France's King Philip the Fair, a few centuries later, made a virtual prisoner of Boniface VIII.
From Time Magazine Archive
In that case it would be his unhappy lot to stand with his hands penitentially crossed upon his chest, behind his place at table, while the rest of us wolfed our meal.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
This low room, four by seven feet, with a narrow bed penitentially hard, a stationary wash-basin, a row of iron clothes-hooks, a foot-high oblong window above her head—what was it?
From No. 13 Washington Square by Leroy Scott
