Penitential

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Penitential \Pen`i*ten"tial\, a. [Cf. F. p['e]nitentiel.]
     Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing
     penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential
     book; penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." --Cowper.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can
           not cleanse.                             --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Penitential \Pen`i*ten"tial\, n. (R. C. Ch.)
     A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions,
     containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called
     also {penitential book}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  penitential
       adj 1: of or relating to penitence or penance; "the Day of
              Atonement is the great penitential day of the Hebrew
              calendar"
       2: showing or constituting penance; "penitential tears"; "wrote
          a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "penitential":
     abject, amendatory, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, balancing,
     cleansing, compensating, compensational, compensatory,
     compunctious, contrite, counteracting, counteractive,
     counterbalancing, countervailing, expiatory, humble, humbled,
     indemnificatory, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, melted,
     offsetting, penitent, penitentiary, piacular, propitiatory,
     purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing,
     recompensive, rectifying, redeeming, redemptive, redressing,
     regretful, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting,
     restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, retaliatory, righting,
     satisfactional, sheepish, softened, sorry, squaring, touched