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    Penitential means "about being sorry for a wrong" — the feeling, the look, or the time of that sorry mood. A penitential letter is a letter written in that spirit. Penitential prayers are prayers said because you know you did wrong. It is a church-and-book word, more formal than sorry. You may meet set names like the penitential psalms, a group of psalms used for saying you are sorry. Though actually, in church history it can also be a noun: a penitential was a handbook that told priests what a person should do to make up for a wrong. almost never need that noun. In ordinary life, people say sorry, ashamed, or they say they regret it. Use penitential when you want a serious, church-like tone, not when you knocked over a cup.

    懺悔的、悔罪的

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組成From Medieval Latin paenitentiālis, from Latin paenitentia ("repentance"). Used in English since the 16th century. Built on the same stem as penitence.

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  • penitencethe noun for the sorry feeling
  • penitentthe person, or the simpler adjective
  • penancethe related act, from the same Latin source

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

penitentialadj/ˌpɛnɪˈtɛnʃəl/

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    Pertaining to penance or penitence.

    • Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse.

penitentialnoun/ˌpɛnɪˈtɛnʃəl/

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    A book or set of rules pertaining to the Christian sacrament of penance.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。