Penitence is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 141 anagrams from letters in penitence (ceeeinnpt).
1150-1200; Middle English (Old French) Medieval Latin pēnitentia, Latin paenitentia a regretting. See penitent, -ence
This sermon, which was upon fasting and penitence, terrified them.
Yet she still fasted, in penitence, and ministered to other sick people and to the elderly.
I despatched the note, and she was full of penitence, and gratitude, and tears.
Could the largest living icon of communism really be on the verge of penitence?
I could not drive the vision away—the lovely, pleading face, the penitence.
The mother forbade me the house, nor did Jean show that penitence that might have been expected.
Repent, and we will laugh at your penitence as a shallow deception.
It was not in such a nature to know a gentle mood of penitence for a wrong done.
In vain the Woman Perfect struggled to subdue her mirth to penitence.
It must not be by our means; nay, if we could win him back to penitence, we should be bound to love him yet.
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