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Adjective
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Sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life
apologetic
repentant
sorry
contrite
regretful
remorseful
rueful
abject
conscience-stricken
atoning
sorrowful
compunctious
ashamed
shamefaced
attritional
penitential
repenting
shamed
guilty
guilt-ridden
sheepish
self-reproachful
chastened
full of regret
hangdog
mournful
in sackcloth and ashes
sad
red-faced
abashed
propitiatory
embarrassed
mortified
discomfited
humble
uncomfortable
self-condemnatory
humiliated
chagrined
deprecatory
supplicating
self-incriminating
distressed
afraid
humbled
bad
on one's knees
awkward
penitentiary
disturbed
troubled
appeasing
disappointed
terrible
repining
self-accusing
rotten
awful
disgraced
woeful
melancholy
with one's tail between one's legs
dismal
plaintive
lugubrious
woebegone
grievous
pitiful
conciliatory
explanatory
expiatory
self-effacing
diffident
doleful
pitiable
deplorable
upset
shy
flustered
self-conscious
blushing
bashful
prudish
crestfallen
discountenanced
debased
meek
deterred
stuttering
disconcerted
submissive
reserved
restrained
stammering
demeaned
distraught
muddled
blush to think of
degraded
dishonoredUS
dishonouredUK
discredited
shown up
flushed
cheap
in disgrace
abased
cheapened
stigmatizedUS
modest
timid
coy
stigmatisedUK
reddening
flushing
put to shame
made to eat humble pie
put down
unsettled
thrown
uneasy
turning red
blushful
discomposed
sweating
nervous
hot and bothered
put out of countenance
shown-up
ill at ease
insignificant
diminished
caught with egg on your face
not know where to put yourself
stupid
tarred and feathered
foolish
whipped
chastised
disdained
derided
low
deflated
condemned
belittled
small
disparaged
shunned
crushed
reviled
scorned
mocked
inferior
fallen
castigated
with egg on one's face
wishing the earth would swallow one up
“In short, a penitent soul in Hell is a flat contradiction in terms.”
Noun
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Penaunt
penaunt
Noun
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Forgiven child
prodigal son
lost lamb
magdalen
prodigal
prodigal returned
returnee
Noun
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A person who follows an ascetic life
ascetic
abstainer
recluse
anchorite
hermit
monk
nun
anchoress
celibate
puritan
solitary
dervish
fakir
rishi
Sufi
yogi
eremite
gymnosophist
hikikomori
marabout
muni
sadhu
sannyasi
santon
stylite
aerialist
cenobite
desert saint
pillarist
self-denier
pillar saint
pillar hermit
isolate
solitudinarian
troglodyte
outsider
loner
solitaire
skepticUS
misanthrope
solitarian
scepticUK
outside of human society anchoret
introvert
lone ranger
lone wolf
anthrophobe
individual
anchoret
Miller of Dee
homebody
solitary person
self-observer
cynic
grouch
grump
misanthropist
naysayer
pessimist
churl
doubter
egotist
malcontent
egoist
mankind-hater
hater
hater of mankind
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