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Definition of Penitents
1. penitent [n] - See also: penitent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penitents
Literary usage of Penitents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1840)
"These were the first class The of penitents, men of notorious guilt, whom only
Pel"lents a long period of this humiliating probation could admit even within ..."
2. Divine Worship in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by John David Chambers (1877)
"V.—RECEPTION OF penitents. ... for the Reconciliation of the penitents mould be
thus ordered. ... which the penitents ..."
3. The Personal History of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Edwin Percy Whipple (1894)
"CHAPTER LXI I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING penitents FOR a time — at all events until
my book should be completed, which would be the work of several months — I ..."
4. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two by Joseph Bingham (1856)
"And upon this account the church was used to divide her penitents into four ...
Bellar- mine ' says, there was a fifth place, of such penitents as had fully ..."
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