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What is the adjective for penitentiary?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb penance which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

penitent
  1. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.
  2. Doing penance.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. remorseful, regretful, sorry, contrite, repentant, rueful, apologetic, ashamed, compunctious, shamefaced, attritional, penitential, sorrowful, shamed, abject, atoning, repenting, conscience-stricken, guilty, guilt-ridden, sheepish, chastened, self-reproachful, full of regret, in sackcloth and ashes, hangdog, mournful, propitiatory, self-condemnatory, sad, abashed, mortified, supplicating, afraid, self-incriminating, red-faced, on one's knees, humble, embarrassed, uncomfortable, discomfited, deprecatory, awkward, bad, self-accusing, penitentiary, terrible, disturbed, troubled, distressed … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “In short, a penitent soul in Hell is a flat contradiction in terms.”
penitentiary
  1. Of or relating to penance; penitential.
  2. Of or relating to the punishment of criminals.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. reformative, punitive, penal, punitory, disciplinarian, disciplinary, correctional, castigating, castigative, castigatory, chastening, chastising, disciplining, penalising, penalizing, correcting, corrective, reformatory, retributive, punishing, retributory, retaliative, vindicatory, vindictive, retaliatory, revengeful, in retaliation, justificatory, defensive, in reprisal, vengeful, avenging, reciprocal, reactive, tit-for-tat, ordered, penitential, regretful, remorseful, repentant, sorry, contrite, penitent, rueful, apologetic, attritional, compunctious, chastened, mournful, atoning … more
penitential
  1. Pertaining to penance or penitence
  2. Synonyms:
      3. regretful, remorseful, repentant, sorry, contrite, penitent, rueful, apologetic, attritional, compunctious, chastened, mournful, atoning, sorrowful, penitentiary, sad, conscience-stricken, self-reproachful, guilt-ridden, ashamed, shamefaced, sheepish, guilty, full of regret, in sackcloth and ashes, self-condemnatory, abject, propitiatory, supplicating, self-incriminating, on one's knees, hangdog, self-accusing, afraid, bad, humble, shamed, awful, repenting, deprecatory, conciliatory, explanatory, diffident, expiatory, red-faced, self-effacing, abashed, mortified, embarrassed, uncomfortable … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “In earlier ages a penitential procession often followed the rite of the distribution of the ashes, but this is not now prescribed.”
penitant
  1. Obsolete spelling of penitent
penanceless
  1. (rare) Free from penance.
penanced
  1. simple past tense and past participle of penance
penancing
  1. present participle of penance
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