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What does penitently mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a penitent manner.
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Building the dam was a terrible error, says the club penitently.
The mother, usually veiled, carried the candle blessed at Candlemas and waited penitently for the priest at the vestibule of the church with her husband and female companions.
When the scandal broke, one son penitently went to work emptying bed-pans in a leper colony.
Who would refuse the kindness for which she begged so penitently?
Ive been a brute again, cried Nancy, penitently, dashing after her mother.
Keeping her head penitently bowed, Allie murmured silent good byes to all she could remember in the heat, while tears dared to brink her dark lashes.

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