| 单词 | penitence |
| 释义 | pen·i·tence 1. 2. < forgiveness following true penitence > Synonyms: < that no sin is beyond forgiveness if it is followed by true penitence — K.S.Latourette > repentance emphasizes the change of mind of one who not only regrets specific faults or errors but has abandoned his former way of life and is following a new standard < for godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation — 2 Cor 7: 10 (Revised Standard Version) > < without repentance … man is too much his own god to feel the need of … knowing the true God — Reinhold Niebuhr > contrition stresses a sense of unworthiness; in general use it implies penitence that is manifest in signs of pain or grief < you must — whether you feel it or not — present an appearance of contrition — George Meredith > in the theological use, contrition implies sorrow arising out of love of God and one's failure to respond to his graces; in this sense, it is contrasted with attrition, which means sorrow over one's sin due to a lower motive, such as fear of punishment < most Christian churches hold that attrition is imperfect contrition and is not sufficient for salvation > attrition, in this sense, is limited to theological use. All these terms imply an authority, religious or secular, to which one submits; this implication is absent from remorse and compunction, both of which denote a painful sting of conscience, without necessarily connoting humility or hope of forgiveness; but remorse emphasizes mental anguish and often intense suffering for consequences which cannot be escaped, not necessarily accompanied by any resolve to reform < remorse that makes one walk on thorns — Oscar Wilde > < chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment — Aldous Huxley > compunction, the least powerful of these terms, usually suggests a momentary reaction, not only for something done, but also for something being done or about to be done < would not hurt a gnat unless his party … told him to do so, and then only with compunction — Sir Winston Churchill > |
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