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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a penitent manner; with penitence or contrition for sin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a penitent manner.

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  • adverb In a penitent manner.

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  • adverb showing remorse

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Examples

  • I want to know if I submit the same article to sites like mixx, digg, yahoo news and so on that use "ONLY" snippets of my article linking back to my site as the source for the rest, would I get any kind of penitently from Google?

    Digital Point Forums tryingtolearn 2009

  • Or was she penitently striving to make amends for the unmerited harshness she had dealt him?

    CHAPTER 10 2010

  • Our waitress, a penitently failed vegan, said this was her favorite dish and refused to charge us for it when we begged to differ.

    Exurban Excellence 2009

  • Tower Hill, where he died, at thirty-four years old, both courageously and penitently.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • “Well,” said Will, penitently, “you are a great scholar, Mr. Frank, and you speak like one; but gentlemen must fight sometimes, or where would be their honor?”

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • During the ensuing 45 minute long distance conversation, I penitently promised a variety of things to make up for my flagrant abuse of family storytelling privilege:

    duly chastised, I write again 2004

  • Queene of France fell into a grievous sicknesse, and perceiving her selfe to be at the point of death, shee became very penitently sorrowfull for all her sinnes, earnestly desiring that shee might be confessed by the Archbishop of Roane, who was reputed to be an holy and vercuous man.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Upon the report whereof, Ricciardo becomming likewise a widdower, and grieving extraordinarily for his haynous transgression, penitently betooke himselfe to live in a wildernesse, where (not long after) he ended his dayes.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Hath he born himself penitently in prison? how seems he to be touched?

    Measure for Measure 2004

  • His confusion at the discovery of his own forgetfulness secretly delighted her; she could have cried with pleasure when he penitently wondered what he could possibly have been thinking of.

    No Name 2003

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