(a.) Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears.
(n.) A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wearing vestments of penitential purple, Francis said he had decided to come to the island after learning of a recent incident in which migrants had died while attempting the crossing from north Africa.
(2) The tourists kept up with their penitential circuit of the site on the prescribed route, while I examined the broken ground where the old visitor centre and the foot tunnel under the abandoned road are being returned to a simulacrum of the natural.
(3) To watch Mr Laughs stuttering through his penitential Newsnight interview , sounding like Joey Essex ’s less intelligent younger brother, was to wish to look away in embarrassment.
(4) There is, of course, something inherently comic about a Catholic nun, whom we imagine lives a strict and penitential life, observing a vow of poverty and perhaps even silence, sleeping in a cell with only a crucifix for adornment and only ever using her singing voice for the Ave Maria, suddenly carrying on like a sexy R'n'B star from Manhattan.
(5) This, then, is the other key difference: these films are contemporary angst monkey movies, penitential reflections of our mistreatment of our closest cousins.
Penitentially
Definition:
(adv.) In a penitential manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wearing vestments of penitential purple, Francis said he had decided to come to the island after learning of a recent incident in which migrants had died while attempting the crossing from north Africa.
(2) The tourists kept up with their penitential circuit of the site on the prescribed route, while I examined the broken ground where the old visitor centre and the foot tunnel under the abandoned road are being returned to a simulacrum of the natural.
(3) To watch Mr Laughs stuttering through his penitential Newsnight interview , sounding like Joey Essex ’s less intelligent younger brother, was to wish to look away in embarrassment.
(4) There is, of course, something inherently comic about a Catholic nun, whom we imagine lives a strict and penitential life, observing a vow of poverty and perhaps even silence, sleeping in a cell with only a crucifix for adornment and only ever using her singing voice for the Ave Maria, suddenly carrying on like a sexy R'n'B star from Manhattan.
(5) This, then, is the other key difference: these films are contemporary angst monkey movies, penitential reflections of our mistreatment of our closest cousins.