- 1懺悔的、悔罪的
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.
組成From Medieval Latin paenitentiālis, from Latin paenitentia ("repentance"). Used in English since the 16th century. Built on the same stem as penitence.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。