Words and phrases that have a meaning related to penitent:  (149 results)
Often used in the same context:
repentant, contrite, penitence, absolution, repentance, penance, sinner, contrition, atonement, confessor, penitential, expiation, forgiveness, forgiver, metanoia, apologizer, asceticism, pharisaical, saintly, unction, deliverance, purgation, guiltily, mea culpa, confessional, abasement, wrathful, unworthily, flagellants, pious, beatitude, scourging, gnostics, homiletic, tempter, adulterous, remorseful, impenitent, friar, supplication, mephistophelean, beatific, angelic, tremulous, repents, sins, mysterium, venial sin, irenic, gratuitousness, pardoner, apologetic, suppliant, concupiscence, archangel, abashed, disconcertingly, lovingkindness, piety, inwardly, mendicant, brokenness, beadle, bodhisattva, fleshly, spiritualize, impassivity, saturnine, salvation, quavery, carnality, christlike, eschatological, chastened, unutterable, sorrowful, interiorly, unbeliever, reproachful, redemptive, flagellation, shamefaced, sinful, husbandly, sinless, intercessor, neurasthenic, nonbeliever, sacramentally, whoremonger, monkish, partaker, lounge lizard, righteous, recriminatory, merciful, blamelessness, lovesickness, supplicant, propitiation, quivery, sensualist, penitents, pilgrim, mourner, sufferer, worshipper, apostle, devotee, moses, prophet, queen, disciple, disciples, fugitive, martyr, saint, votary, worshiper, ascetic, confessors, despondent, disconsolate, unrepentant, heartbroken, meek, submissive, discouraged, distraught, dejected, humiliated, thankful, trustful, guilty, humbled, obedient, reticent
More specific:
flagellant
Appears in the definition of:
confession, impenitent, unremorseful, unrepentant
Synonyms:
rueful, sorry
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— Nouns for penitent: thief, sinner, sinners, heart, soul, man, believer, woman, form, confession, believers, more...

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