Word Meanings - CONTRITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

grind, bruise; con- + terere to rub, grind: cf. F. contrit See 1. Thoroughly bruised or broken. 2. Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. A contrite heart,

Additional info about word: CONTRITE

grind, bruise; con- + terere to rub, grind: cf. F. contrit See 1. Thoroughly bruised or broken. 2. Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. A contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Ps. li. 17. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton. Syn. -- Penitent; repentant; humble; sorrowful.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTRITE)

• Penitential
• Wailing
• mournful
• dirgeful
• sorrowful
• contrite
• penitent

Related words: (words related to CONTRITE)

• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• PENITENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse.
• DIRGEFUL
  Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.
• WAILMENT
  Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.
• WAIL
  To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.
• PENITENTLY
  In a penitent manner.
• WAILFUL
  Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
• WAILINGLY
  In a wailing manner.
• PENITENT
  p.pr. of paenitere, poenitere, to cause to repent, to repent; prob. 1. 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. Be penitent, and for thy
• PENITENTIARYSHIP
  The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court. Wood.
• WAILERESS
  A woman who wails.
• CONTRITE
  grind, bruise; con- + terere to rub, grind: cf. F. contrit See 1. Thoroughly bruised or broken. 2. Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. A contrite heart,
• PENITENTIALLY
  In a penitential manner.
• CONTRITENESS
  Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.
• SORROWFUL
  1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
• PENITENTIARY
  1. Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance. "A penitentiary tax." Abp. Bramhall. 2. Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter. 3. Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation. "Penitentiary houses." Blackstone.
• WAILER
  One who wails or laments.
• BEWAIL
  To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
• BEWAILING
  Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
• BEWAILABLE
  Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
• WIDOW-WAIL
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.