Words similar to penitence

Example sentences for: penitence

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Yet even on an ordinary weekday, scattered believers, some kneeling in penitence, come to Fátima to pay homage to the Virgin Mary.
remorse or penitence
Artists still scorn it as a vulgar pastiche, and the working-class residents of the area resented its being erected as a symbol of penitence for the insurrection of the 1871 Commune — they didn’t feel penitent in the least.
Japan's World War II penitence is suspect.