Penitential

Definitions: Penitential

Penitential

Adjective

1. Of or relating to penitence or penance; "the Day of Atonement is the great penitential day of the Hebrew calendar".

2. Showing or constituting penance; "penitential tears"; "wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words".

Date "penitential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Penitence	Penitential, penitentiary; reclaimed, reborn; not hardened; unhardened.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Penitential

English words defined with "penitential": Miserere. (references)

Specialty definitions using "penitential": Past, Penitential Psalms ♦ Scarification ♦ Violon'. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Communion With the Saints: Homilies for Feasts and Memorials of the Saints, With Introductions, Penitential Prayers, and General Intercessions (reference) Exposition of the Seven Penitential Psalms (reference) Lent: A Journey to Resurrection Prayers and Reflections for the Penitential Season (reference) Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism: The Development of a Religious Institution (reference) Penitential Services (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Lassus: PENITENTIAL PSALMS (reference) Marshall: Three Penitential Visions (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	[Yellow Fever: Penitential Procession at Lisbon].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.
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"Penitential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Penitential" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	40	54,274

Expressions using "penitential": penitential book ♦ penitential sermon. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "penitential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pendimi (penitentiary), pendestar (penitent), pendese (penitentiary), libër pendesash. (various references)

Arabic		‏كتاب التوبة, ‏توبي. (various references)

Bulgarian		разкаял се грешник (penitent), книга с правила за покаяние, каящ се грешник (penitent), отнасящ се до разкаяние, отнасящ се до епитимия, отнасящ се до покаяние, облекло на каящ се, поведение на каящ се. (various references)

Czech		kajícný (apologetic, contrite, penitent, remorseful, repentant). (various references)

French		pénitentiel. (various references)

German		reuvoll (repentant), reumütig (contrite, penitent, remorseful, repentant, rueful), reuig (contrite, contritely, penitent, penitently, remorseful, repentant, rueful, ruefully). (various references)

Greek		μετάνοιασ, μετανοητικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		bűnbánati. (various references)

Pig Latin		enitentialpay

Portuguese		penitente (contrite, contritely, repentant), penitencial (penknife). (various references)

Romanian		de pocãinţã. (various references)

Russian		покаянный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pokajnički (penitentiary, remorseful, repentant). (various references)

Spanish		penitencial. (various references)

Swedish		bot-. (various references)

Turkish		pişmanlık ilahileri kitabı (penitential book), pişmanlık (angst, compunction, contrition, penitence, regret, remorse, repentance, ruefulness), kefaret (atonement, expiation, penance, propitiation, ransom, redemption). (various references)

Ukranian		покаяний. (various references)

Vietnamese		hối lỗi; để sám hối, ăn năn (contrite, penitent, remorseful, repentant). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "penitential": penitentially. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Penitential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peniteential, penitentiales, penitentials, perigenital, ppenitential. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-p-t-t"
	-2 letters: antielite, inpatient.
	-3 letters: penitent, petaline, tapeline, tinplate.
	-4 letters: aniline, elapine, enplane, entitle, intitle, lenient, lineate, palette, pantile, patient, peltate, penlite, pennate, pentane, pileate, pinnate, pintail.
	-5 letters: alpine, anilin, aplite, entail, innate, intent, intine, lateen, latent, latten, lattin, lenten, linnet, litten, neaten, nettle, pantie, patent, patine, pattee, patten, pattie, pelite, penial, penile, pennae, pennia, petite.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-p-t-t"
	+2 letters: penitentially.
	+3 letters: epicontinental, implementation, interpellating, interpellation.
	+4 letters: implementations, interpellations, intraperitoneal, nonexploitative, plenipotentiary.
	+5 letters: hyperventilating, hyperventilation, interpretational.
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