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What does penitently mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a penitent manner.
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Wickfield's plans,' said the Doctor, stroking his face, and looking penitently at his adviser.
Suddenly he became quiet and bent toward her anxiously, penitently.
Saddhā Tissa penitently returned and pledged his loyalty to Duṭṭhagāmaṇī's campaign.
It is I that am the woman of ill-omen,' cried the old lady 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.
Ive been a brute again, cried Nancy, penitently, dashing after her mother.

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