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单词 penitential
释义
penitentialpen‧i‧ten‧tial /ˌpenəˈtenʃəl◂/ adjective formal Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a penitential journey to a holy shrine
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And alas, I thought, my penitential journey over, they didn't do it separately in the first place.
  • Devotion in the Middle Ages was often expressed by means of penitential journeys to famous shrines.
  • From the end of the period of the Kings, public penitential festivals were a frequent necessity.
  • It's a priest's penitential chain to be worn around the waist against the skin.
  • There are extraordinarily vivid and exuberant pictures which are countered by others which have an almost penitential mood to them.
relating to being sorry for having done something wrong:  penitential journeys to famous shrines
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