| Lincoln regularly used the language of scripture, but in a way that called both sides in the Civil War to contrition and repentance. |
| A variation on this theme was that the prisoner had reformed or had shown sufficient contrition for their crime. |
| Participation in these gatherings is simply not consonant with the depression and contrition that the mourner experiences. |
| His contrition and his guilt do not help to free him from his bondage, though. |
| I can be quite hard and cruel sometimes, I know that, but I do feel contrition and try to make amends. |
| We should avoid, however, acts of apparent contrition that are, in fact, acts of detraction against our forebears in the faith. |
