adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a penitential journey to a holy shrine
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And alas, I thought, my penitential journey over, they didn't do it separately in the first place.
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Devotion in the Middle Ages was often expressed by means of penitential journeys to famous shrines.
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From the end of the period of the Kings, public penitential festivals were a frequent necessity.
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It's a priest's penitential chain to be worn around the waist against the skin.
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There are extraordinarily vivid and exuberant pictures which are countered by others which have an almost penitential mood to them.