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• pænitence (archaic)

語源

First attested circa 13th century, from 中期英語 penitence, from Old French penitence, from Latin paenitentia (“repentance, penitence”), from paenitēns (“penitent”), present active participle of paeniteō (“regret, repent”). Equivalent to penitent +‎ -ence. Doublet of penance.

発音

• enPR: pĕnʹĭ-təns

名詞

penitence (countable and uncountable, plural penitences)

1. The condition of being penitent; a feeling of regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning.
   • 1886, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Age of Shakespeare, John Webster:

     an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity

   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 105:

     As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.

   • 1887, W. S. Gilbert, Ruddigore, Act II:

     Away, Remorse! / Compunction, hence!. / Go, Moral Force! / Go, Penitence!

同意語

• compunction, contrition, remorse, repentance, penance, atonement

• See also Thesaurus:remorse

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