PENITENTIAL


Meaning of PENITENTIAL in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a penitential journey to a holy shrine

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And alas, I thought, my penitential journey over, they didn't do it separately in the first place.

Devotion in the Middle Ages was often expressed by means of penitential journeys to famous shrines.

From the end of the period of the Kings, public penitential festivals were a frequent necessity.

It's a priest's penitential chain to be worn around the waist against the skin.

There are extraordinarily vivid and exuberant pictures which are countered by others which have an almost penitential mood to them.

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