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What does penitently mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word penitently? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. In a penitent manner.
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This only happens when we come penitently to embrace Jesus Christ as our only hope.
It is I that am the woman of ill-omen,' cried the old lady penitently.
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.
Ive been a brute again, cried Nancy, penitently, dashing after her mother.
Wickfield's plans,' said the Doctor, stroking his face, and looking penitently at his adviser.
When the scandal broke, one son penitently went to work emptying bed-pans in a leper colony.

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