Word Meanings - PENITENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition. "Penitence of his old guilt." Chaucer. Death is deferred, and penitenance has room To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom.

Additional info about word: PENITENCE

The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition. "Penitence of his old guilt." Chaucer. Death is deferred, and penitenance has room To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom. Dryden. Syn. -- Repentance; contrition; compunction.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PENITENCE)

• Attrition
• Sorrow
• repentance
• affliction
• penitence
• compunction
• remorse
• self-reproach
• Compunction
• Contrition
• misgiving
• regret
• sorrow
• Qualm
• Misgiving
• scruple
• Remorse
• anguish
• self-condemnation
• Repentance
• Penitence
• contrition
• borrow
• selfcondemnation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PENITENCE)

• Welcome
• hail
• approve
• abandon
• abjure
• forget
• disregard

Related words: (words related to PENITENCE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• QUALM
  1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve . Chaucer. 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton. 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who,
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• ATTRITION
  Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition. Wallis. (more info) 1. The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected
• CONTRITION
  1. The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing. The breaking of their parts into less parts by contrition. Sir I. Newton. 2. The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing
• AFFLICTION
  1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or
• REGRETFUL
  Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining. -- Re*gret"ful*ly, adv.
• FORGETFUL
  1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.
• REMORSELESS
  Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton. Syn. -- Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable;
• FORGETFULNESS
  1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind. 2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope. 3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention;
• APPROVEMENT
  a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now
• APPROVE
  approve, fr. L. approbare; ad + probare to esteem as good, approve, 1. To show to be real or true; to prove. Wouldst thou approve thy constancy Approve First thy obedience. Milton. 2. To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
• ABJUREMENT
  Renunciation.
• SORROWLESS
  Free from sorrow.
• AFFLICTIONLESS
  Free from affliction.
• MISGIVE
  1. To give or grant amiss. Laud. 2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• UNREMORSELESS
  Utterly remorseless. "Unremorseless death." Cowley.
• ANTIATTRITION
  Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.