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  • noun Plural form of penitential.

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Examples

  • Flowchart: Medieval sexual decisionmaking for penitentials - Boing ...

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Flowchart: Medieval sexual decisionmaking for penitentials

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Flowchart: Medieval sexual decisionmaking for penitentials

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Flowchart: Medieval sexual decisionmaking for penitentials

    Boing Boing 2007

  • On the present festive occasion he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials.

    Great Expectations 2007

  • Particularly, how thou proceededst in thy reformation-scheme; how Mowbray and Tourville go on in my absence; whether thou hast any chance for a wife; [I am the more solicitous on this head, because thou seemest to think that thy mortification will not be complete, nor thy reformation secure, till thou art shackled;] how the Harlowes proceed in their penitentials; if Miss

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Picture of two rakes turned Hermits, in their penitentials.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • In the morning we were both at our penitentials; I cried very heartily, he expressed himself very sorry; but that was all either of us could do at that time, and the way being thus cleared, and the bars of virtue and conscience thus removed, we had the less difficult afterwards to struggle with.

    Moll Flanders 2003

  • Irish and English missionaries to the Continent carried penitentials, manuals for the instruction of priests, containing a list of sins and recommended penances; penitentials played a large role in the conversion of pagan peoples.

    3. Ireland 2001

  • As regards the kinds and content of writings forbidden in ancient times, we find among them, besides apocryphal and heretical books, forged acts of martyrs, spurious penitentials, and superstitious writings.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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