Exact Match:
- penitently
- showing remorse
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- sheepishly
collapse - in a sheepish manner; "sheepishly he handed her back the money" related words >
- humbly
collapse
- in a humble manner; "he humbly lowered his head" related words >
- abjectly,
- apologetically,
- contritely,
- meekly,
- modestly,
- on all fours,
- on bended knee,
- penitentially,
- penitently,
- quietly,
- repentantly,
- sheepishly,
- submissively,
- unassumingly,
- unobtrusively,
- unostentatiously,
- unpresumptuously,
- unpretendingly,
- unpretentiously,
- with bated breath,
- with due deference,
- without ceremony
- rue
collapse
- (French) a street or road in France
- leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy
- European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy related words >
- ruth
collapse
- a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
- the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
- United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948) related words >
- attrition,
- benevolence,
- clemency,
- commiseration,
- compassion,
- compunction,
- condolence,
- contrition,
- favor,
- feeling,
- forbearance,
- forgiveness,
- grace,
- humanity,
- kindness,
- leniency,
- mercy,
- mitigation,
- pardon,
- pathos,
- penance,
- penitently,
- pity,
- quarter,
- relief,
- remorse,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- reprieve,
- rue,
- self-pity,
- sympathy
- abject apology,
- acknowledgment,
- apologies,
- apology,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bitterness,
- breast-beating,
- compunction,
- confession,
- contriteness,
- excuse,
- grief,
- mea culpa,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitently,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- repining,
- rue,
- ruth,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- wistfulness
- anxiety,
- apologies,
- attrition,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- bitterness,
- compunction,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- embarrassment,
- grief,
- guilt,
- guilty conscience,
- humiliation,
- mortification,
- pangs of conscience,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitently,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- repining,
- rue,
- ruefulness,
- self-reproach,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- wistfulness,
- woe
- repentance
collapse
- remorse for your past conduct related words >
- Day of Atonement,
- Yom Kippur,
- abject apology,
- apology,
- asceticism,
- attrition,
- change of heart,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- compunction,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- deathbed repentance,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- hair shirt,
- heartfelt apology,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mea culpa,
- mortification,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- penitently,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- reformation,
- remorse,
- rue,
- ruth,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- saeta,
- wearing a hairshirt
- Day of Atonement,
- Yom Kippur,
- abject apology,
- acknowledgment,
- anguish,
- apology,
- asceticism,
- attrition,
- breast-beating,
- change of heart,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- compunction,
- confession,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- deathbed repentance,
- debasement,
- degradation,
- distress,
- excuse,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- grief,
- hair shirt,
- heartfelt apology,
- humbling,
- humiliation,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mea culpa,
- mortification,
- penance,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- penitently,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- qualm,
- reformation,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- remorse,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- rue,
- ruefulness,
- ruth,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- sadness,
- saeta,
- scruple,
- self-accusation,
- self-punishment,
- self-reproach,
- shame,
- sorrow,
- sorrowfulness,
- wearing a hairshirt
- penance
collapse
- a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
- voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing related words >
- Day of Atonement,
- Yom Kippur,
- abject apology,
- amends,
- apology,
- asceticism,
- atone,
- atonement,
- attrition,
- baptism,
- change of heart,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- compensation,
- compunction,
- confirmation,
- contrition,
- deathbed repentance,
- do penance,
- extreme unction,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- hair shirt,
- heartfelt apology,
- holy orders,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- make amends,
- matrimony,
- mea culpa,
- mortification,
- pay,
- penal retribution,
- penalization,
- penalty,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- penitently,
- price,
- punishment,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- reformation,
- regret,
- remorse,
- remorsefulness,
- reparation,
- repentance,
- rue,
- ruth,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- saeta,
- self-mortification,
- self-punishment,
- seven sacraments,
- suffer,
- suffering,
- the Eucharist,
- wearing a hairshirt
- compunction
collapse
- a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) related words >
- attrition,
- bashfulness,
- beef,
- better self,
- bitch,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- boycott,
- challenge,
- complaint,
- conscience,
- conscientiousness,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurral,
- demurrer,
- diffidence,
- disinclination,
- exception,
- expostulation,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fear,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitation,
- howl,
- indignation meeting,
- kick,
- march,
- misgiving,
- modesty,
- nonviolent protest,
- objection,
- pangs,
- pangs of conscience,
- pause,
- penance,
- penitently,
- picketing,
- pricking of heart,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- punctiliousness,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmishness,
- qualms,
- rally,
- recoil,
- regret,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- remorse,
- repentance,
- reserve,
- rue,
- ruth,
- scruple,
- scruples,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulousness,
- self-reproach,
- shrinking,
- shyness,
- sit-in,
- squawk,
- stickling,
- strike,
- teach-in,
- throes,
- touch of conscience,
- twinge of conscience,
- unwillingness,
- voice of conscience
- attrition
collapse
- the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
- a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition"
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation related words >
- abatement,
- ablation,
- abrasion,
- abrasive,
- absorption,
- apologies,
- assimilation,
- atomization,
- attenuation,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- beating,
- bitterness,
- blunting,
- brecciation,
- buffing,
- burning up,
- burnishing,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- comminution,
- consumption,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- corrosion,
- crumbling,
- crushing,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- deliquescence,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- detraction,
- detrition,
- devitalization,
- digestion,
- dilution,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disintegration,
- disparagement,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- drain,
- dressing,
- dulling,
- eating up,
- effemination,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- expending,
- expenditure,
- extenuation,
- extraction,
- fatigue,
- filing,
- finishing,
- fragmentation,
- fretting,
- galling,
- granulation,
- granulization,
- grating,
- grazing,
- grief,
- grinding,
- impairment,
- impoverishment,
- inanition,
- ingestion,
- languishment,
- lessening,
- levigation,
- limation,
- loss,
- mashing,
- mitigation,
- penance,
- penitently,
- polishing,
- pounding,
- powdering,
- rasping,
- reduction,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- relaxation,
- remission,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- repining,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- rubbing away,
- rue,
- ruth,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- scouring,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scuff,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- shining,
- shortening,
- shredding,
- shrinkage,
- slackening,
- smashing,
- smoothing,
- softening,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- spending,
- squandering,
- thinning,
- trituration,
- truncation,
- using up,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wastefulness,
- wasting away,
- weakening,
- wear,
- wear and tear,
- wearing away,
- wearing down,
- wistfulness
1
Advertisement