penitential

How To Use penitential In A Sentence

• At Hyde Park Corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own. Mrs. Dalloway
• The virtual disappearance of the traditional hearing of confessions in the box has led to the penitential services being the alternative way.
• In earlier ages a penitential procession often followed the rite of the distribution of the ashes, but this is not now prescribed.
• There will be a service of light, a penitential rite for the boys and girls and adults and finally a rehearsal for all who will be taking part in the confirmation ceremony on February 22.
• Chinese emperors used to issue a penitential decree taking the blame for misgovernment or natural calamities.
• Later in the afternoon, when they were home, it began to rain, one of the blistering, penitential downpours of early summer. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
• Mr. ROBERT STONE (Author, "Fun with Problems"): (Reading) Hampton County locked them down in a 19th century brick fortress of a jail, a penitential fantasy of red brick keeps and crenellations. Fiction, Long And Short, For Summertime Escapes
• The steps were brought to Rome in the first centuries of Christianity and are 7) reverenced still by millions of people every year, who pass up them on their knees, deep in 8)penitential prayer.
• Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware. Happy Birthday America! « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy
• Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity.