(a.) Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.
(a.) Doing penance.
(n.) One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
(n.) One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
(n.) One under the direction of a confessor.
Example Sentences:
(1) 9, 333] corresponds to the induction of sequential cellular events, such as cell exit and remigration, by other antimitotic agents [C. Penit and F. Vasseur (1988) J. Immunol.
(2) All the same, you might have expected the "balanced scorecard" approach to directors' bonuses at HSBC to be suspended for a year to underline corporate penitence.
(3) Bill Clinton delivered a penitent personal confession, backed up by a political blitzkrieg, in an effort to save his presidency yesterday, just before the US Congress released independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report, giving details in support of 11 charges which could drive the president from the White House.
(4) Nichols, too, recalls that this Easter – just a fortnight after Pope Francis was elected – Westminster Cathedral found itself awash with penitents.
(5) Australian election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull says Coalition can form majority despite dramatic losses Read more Turnbull is now in a position where he has to bow penitently before the voting public, acknowledging voter disillusionment, vowing to work harder, acknowledging the extent of the campaign miscalculations.
(6) This is the monster that Spare Rib faces, even as it wields a penitent Galloway – dressed, ideally, as a naughty kitten.
(7) This he could do only in a series of acts of memory, public penitence and contrition, in one of which I was peripherally involved.
(8) Ofcom is in a penitent mood over the unsuccessful pairing of Johnson with Andy Duncan , so Burns has joined immediately as chairman-designate.
(9) The Romantics’ cult of the ruin was reborn as a cult of penitence.
(10) Arena is not penitent, however, as he is expected to be.
(11) Meanwhile, an apparently penitent Mr Clinton made his most emotional appeal so far for the mercy and forgiveness of the American people, upbraiding himself as a sinner and issuing fresh apologies for his record of sex and lies with Ms Lewinsky.
(12) There was no penitence in his negotiating stance but it gave Mandela what he needed.
(13) One carving, of Mary sheltering a crowd of tiny penitents under her cloak, created a scandal in the 1850s when it was taken from its original place, over the door of an oratorio in Venice (which survives, the stone still showing the scars from the removal of the sculpture) and sold to the V&A soon after the museum opened, in 1852.
(14) The priest who hears a confession can always advise the penitent to inform the law enforcement even if the instruction is ignored, whereas Siri does not offer moral guidance at all and it seems that Apple is working on a system that it could not decrypt even if it wanted to.
(15) Now it is being relaunched under the journalist Charlotte Raven, who promises a "penitent" George Galloway at the launch party, in some kind of yet to be revealed menial role, which is excellent, but not enough.
(16) On the basis of these results and of a previous work on the ionic basis of the inward rectification of Purkinje cells (Crepel & Penit-Soria, 1986), it appears that these neurones exhibit a well developed alpha (possibly alpha 1)-adrenergic inhibition of a low-threshold Ca conductance and a Ca-dependent K conductance operating near resting potential.
(17) Perhaps, though, this response was because he felt he was untouchable, for his penitent tour of Liverpool earned him more admirers.
(18) Backers will be treated to a glamorous Shoreditch party where "costumed penitents", including the columnist Rod Liddle and MP George Galloway , will serve cocktails, Raven adds.
(19) If Blair wants material for his vanity project – “why are people so disillusioned with establishment politics?” – then how about starting with politicians who face no penalties for their colossal misdeeds, and continue to exert huge power and influence without any apparent shame or even penitence?
(20) Those awful days when James and Rupert had to appear penitent, shaking their heads over the failure of minions who inexplicably withheld crucial information from them, must feel like a bad dream.
Regret
Definition:
(v.) Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction.
(v.) Dislike; aversion.
(v. t.) To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; to regret lost opportunities or friends.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We absolutely regret the setbacks Kim Dotcom has had since MegaUpload was taken offline, but we hope he as an entrepreneur will understand our side of the story and the decisions deliberately taken."
(2) Whilst we deeply regret all these incidents and acknowledge that the care of these patients could have been better, this is a relatively low number of incidents for a hospital of this size,” it said in a statement.
(3) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
(4) An innovative approach to treatment planning is described in which a planned dose distribution is evaluated in terms of prescribed limits of acceptability, and any discrepancies (referred to as "regions of regret") are displayed in the form of a contour diagram in which colors are used to represent different types and degrees of regret.
(5) The allegations come weeks after Top Gear executives expressed regret over a remark made by Clarkson on the show's Burma special, broadcast in March.
(6) We deeply regret any instance which led to the Financial Ombudsman Service receiving incorrect or incomplete information from us.” Clydesdale is now reviewing all PPI complaints handled before August 2014 and will pay redress to any affected customers.
(7) The other example is of a woman who had a child who died at the age of 10 and expressed no regrets, but when questioned about whether she would have continued a pregnancy knowingly aware the baby would die in 10 years, the woman replied that she could not imagine how anyone could be so strong as to bear a child knowing the brevity of its life.
(8) She insists she has no regrets about dedicating herself to the man millions admired but few really got to know.
(9) Of the 28 parents who did not see the body, 17 subsequently stated their regret.
(10) In the prime minister's reply, he said it was with "enormous regret that I accept your resignation as the member of parliament for Corby and East Northamptonshire, a seat that had been Labour for 13 years before you.
(11) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
(12) "We regret this decision by the Russian government," a senior Obama administration official said.
(13) These cases may represent a small percentage of the many sterilization operations that are performed each year, yet the fact that tubal sterilization is performed primarily on fit young women for "nonmedical" reasons makes it all the more important that women who will come to regret the procedure are identified and advised against it.
(14) "I regret that these things which are speculative and are not signed off on should be the source of discussion in other quarters."
(15) A woman accused of being the only surviving member of a murderous German neo-Nazi cell that remained undetected for over a decade, has broken her silence for the first time telling a court she was not involved in the planning or carrying out of the attacks but that she regretted failing to prevent them.
(16) "There was clearly inappropriate behaviour by some of the other guests and I deeply regret that this happened.
(17) The pair’s barrister, Charanjit Jutla, said both men were of good character and deeply regretted their conduct.
(18) He pointed out that Labour had not introduced such a radical examination in 1997, something he now regretted.
(19) Stewart surely sees himself as a future minister, though he regrets telling one journalist he wanted to be.
(20) Rupert Murdoch has said he regrets that his papers have turned against prime minister Gordon Brown – but believes they are right to do so.