(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.
Sorry
Definition:
(a.) Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.
(a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
(a.) Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
(2) Israel’s president has told his Mexican counterpart that he was “sorry for the hurt” over a tweet in which the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to praise Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US-Mexican border.
(3) Leicester looked a little sorry for themselves and, with their concentration down, United twisted the knife.
(4) If I go back to 1995 – and some started earlier, some a little later, but let’s take that as ground zero – I think we’re all sorry.
(5) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
(6) I say ‘fuck sorry.’” Rudd, who addressed a breakfast in Sydney to mark the anniversary, said words must be followed up with actions.
(7) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
(8) But the sorry state of the economy is clearly the main worry.
(9) "I almost feel sorry for them," said Pauline Corton, who was checking out Radley bags in the County Arcade with 20%, 30% and 50% off.
(10) "We are very sorry if customers have not received their baggage and we will reunite them as quickly as possible."
(11) I used to go to meetings and people would say sorry about all the problems and the denialist president.
(12) Hermens went on to say that Aregawi “feels really sorry for all the people that she has let down in Sweden”.
(13) Every time I hear that someone has been injured by a bomb on the ground I feel very sorry.
(14) "In a way I feel sorry for him and I think he needs some sort of counselling as it is obviously very odd behaviour.
(15) I’m desperately sorry, says head who hired paedophile William Vahey Read more Investigators in the UK have already established that while Vahey was teaching in London from 2009 to 2013, teachers on four different trips reported his suspicious behaviour with pupils to the school.
(16) But while the imprisoned activists and their supporters are fervently hoping that the Queen of Pop will use her Russian platform (Olimpiyskiy stadium, which is a pretty big one) to make a strong statement in their support, so far all she's been able to muster in public is a remark that she's "sorry that they've been arrested".
(17) The Jedwabne massacre and Kaminski's line that "Jews should say sorry for killing Poles" during the second world war is by far the most important of the many contentious issues on this man.
(18) André Villas-Boas Villas-Boas was only 33 when he won the Europa League with Porto Gianluca Vialli Sven-Göran Eriksson Pep Guardiola You got… Perfection You hero You star You've done very well there You've done well there You've done OK there Sorry to break it to you but that's a bad score Come on.
(19) It is convention that private conversations with the queen should be kept off the record, and Cameron later said he was embarrassed and sorry about the incident.
(20) DN: Sorry, Julia, but depression is still – as you may know from the recent report from the European Brain Council, of which I'm vice president – the largest cause of disability in Europe.