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Pronunciation: [pˌɛnɪtˈɛnʃə͡l] (IPA)

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What are the opposite words for penitential?

Penitential, an adjective that describes feelings or actions related to repentance and atonement, is often used in religious contexts. Its antonyms, words with opposite meanings, include words related to joy, freedom, and lack of sorrow. Examples of antonyms for penitential are celebratory, joyful, carefree, unrepentant, unapologetic, and unremorseful. These antonyms imply a lack of guilt or regret and emphasize positive emotions instead. They can be used to describe events, moods, or attitudes that are the opposite of penitential, such as a festive party, a carefree vacation, or an unapologetic attitude towards one's actions.

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Usage examples for Penitential

penitential pilgrims come from all parts of the group to kneel and pray in this church, a service which, according to the local priests, carries with it absolution for any amount of sin and wickedness.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
You remember that when I carried off Mary, I had no intention of leaving England whatever: my object was, after making her my wife, to open negociations with the old colonel, and after the approved routine of penitential letters, imploring forgiveness, and setting forth happiness only wanting his sanction to make it heaven itself, to have thrown ourselves at his feet 'selon les regles,' sobbed, blubbered, blew our noses, and dressed for dinner, very comfortable inmates of that particularly snug residence, 'Hydrabad Cottage.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
In this country a widow's first mourning dresses are covered almost entirely with crape, a most costly and disagreeable material, easily ruined by the dampness and dust-a sort of penitential and self-mortifying dress, and very ugly and very expensive.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Famous quotes with Penitential

  • True penitential confession is joined with reformation. He that does not forsake his sin, as well as confess it, forsakes the benefit of his confession. And indeed, there is no real confession of sin, where there is no real forsaking of sin. It is not enough for us to confess the sins we have committed, but we must resolve against committing again the sins we have committed.
    Thomas Brooks (Puritan)
  • What end impersonal, what breathless age, Incontinent of quiet and of years, What calm catastrophe will yet assuage This final drouth of penitential tears?
    Yvor Winters
  • She nursed him, she read to him, she anticipated his wants, and was solicitous about his feelings; but there had entered into the husband’s mind the certainty that she judged him, and that her wifely devotedness was like a penitential expiation of unbelieving thoughts—was accompanied with a power of comparison by which himself and his doings were seen too luminously as a part of things in general. His discontent passed vaporlike through all her gentle loving manifestations, and clung to that unappreciative world which she had only brought nearer to him.
    George Eliot
  • The Poet could not remember ever fearing death, but he had often suspected Providence of plotting the worst for him as to the manner of his dying when the time came to go. He had expected to rot away. Slowly and not very fragrantly. Some poetic insight had warned him that he would surely die a blubbering leprous lump, cravenly penitential but impenitent. Never had he anticipated anything so blunt and final as a bullet in the stomach, and with not even an audience at hand to hear his dying quips. The last thing they had heard him say when they shot him was: "Oof!" — his testament for posterity. Ooof!
    Walter M. Miller

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