Similar words: penitentiary, penitent, impenitent, penitence, potential, potentially, potentiality, plenipotentiary. Meaning: [‚penɪ'tenʃl] 
adj. 1. of or relating to penitence or penance 2. showing or constituting penance.
adj. 1. of or relating to penitence or penance 2. showing or constituting penance. 
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1. It's a priest's penitential chain to be worn around the waist against the skin.
2. And alas, I thought, my penitential journey over, they didn't do it separately in the first place.
3. The word also had a penitential meaning.
4. I spent a penitential weekend augmenting the green acceptable.
5. Penitential works are very important during Lent.
6. The steps were brought to Rome in the first centuries of Christianity and are 7) reverenced still by millions of people every year, who pass up them on their knees, deep in 8)penitential prayer.
7. The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and no burden ought to be imposed on the dying, according to them.
8. He stressed the penitential aspect of monasticism - little food, no meat, hard manual labor, and strict silence.
9. Devotion in the Middle Ages was often expressed by means of penitential journeys to famous shrines.
10. There are extraordinarily vivid and exuberant pictures which are countered by others which have an almost penitential mood to them.
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11. From the end of the period of the Kings, public penitential festivals were a frequent necessity.
12. Such thing like this has happened frequently and I know it is my essence: violating knowingly and pertinacity and just being conscious and penitential afterward.
13. Fat Tuesday offers Christians (and others) a final chance to party before the penitential season of Lent begins.
14. If they would serve their fellow-men, let them do it by making manifest the power and reality of conscience, in constraining them to penitential self-abasement!
15. The carnival is the final big party before the penitential season of Lent begins.
16. But Europe's worst enemy is Europe itself, with its penitential view of its past, its corrosive guilt, and a scrupulousness taken to the point of paralysis.
17. Apparently the man's zeal for agriculture had burned with a failing flame, expiring in penitential ashes.
18. For three days the Pope kept him waiting, barefoot and in penitential garb.
19. Instead, her life could be seen as an ideal model for Florentine penitential women.
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