A-Z: General definitions
- Pelops
- Penal substitution
- Penance
- Penelope
- Penitence
- Penitent
- Penitential Psalm
- Penny gaff
- Pentameter
- Pentateuch
- Pentecost
- Pentecostal Christian
- Pentheus
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Perdition
- Perepeteia
- Periphrasis
- Peris
- Perjoratively
- Persecution
- Persephone
- Perseus
- Perseus and Medusa
- Persian
- Persona
- Personified
- Personify
- Pessimism
- Peter
- Peter Abelard
- Peter Lombard
- Peterloo massacre
- Petit coffre
- Petrarch
- Petrarchan
- Petrarchan sonnet
- Pew
- Phaedra
- Phaethon
- Phaeton
- phallic
- Pharaoh
- Pharisee
- Phidian
- Philanthropist
- Philip II
- Philip Sidney
- Philippi
- Philistine
- Philoctetes
A-Z: General definitions: Penitent
Definition
An individual who confesses guilt and desires to seek forgiveness, especially the forgiveness of God. In former times, penitents often wore sackcloth, and had their heads daubed with ashes as a symbol of their repentance.1. The action of forgiving; pardon of a fault, remission of a debt.
2. Being freed from the burden of guilt, after committing a sin or crime, through being pardoned by the one hurt or offended.
The act of turning away, or turning around from, one's sins, which includes feeling genuinely sorry for them, asking for the forgiveness of God and being willing to live in a different way in the future.
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