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Penitence

British pronunciation/pˈɛnɪtəns/
American pronunciation/pˈɛnɪtəns/
Penitence
[NOUN]
1

remorse for your past conduct

synonyms : penance
repentance
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1There the predictability, the penitence is 100%.
2They're not single strong Mendelian alleles with strong penitence.
3He clothed himself in a friar’s robe as a sign of penitence and set out to meet the sovereigns at Burgis, some 500 miles from his landing port of Cadiz.
4Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
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