PenitentWordNet Explorer

feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds

feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse

feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

showing or constituting penance

a person who manifests devotion to a deity

the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy

a person who whips himself as a religious penance