Contrition Definition

Contrition Sentence Examples

• I thought we'd finished with the vicarious act of contrition but no such luck.

• With pure prayer and deep contrition, Let us participate in the sacraments of the church.

• On the day of his capture Monmouth wrote to James in terms of the most unmanly contrition, ascribing his wrong-doings to the action of others, and imploring an interview.

• I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it.

• I whizzed round the corner, then felt a mixture of anger, rage, mixed with a little contrition.