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his last crime--but who can trust the good resolutions of a gambler! — Life in
Mexico;
• (penitent)- feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed
to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite, (
); Austin was very penitent, and promised he'd never
be unpunctual again if he lived to be a hundred. — Austin and His Friends;
• (impenitent)- not feeling regret about one's sin or sins; obdurate,
( ; ); Indeed a hard heart is impenitent, and
impenitence also makes the heart harder and harder. — Works of John Bunyan
— Complete;
• (penance)- a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin, (
- ; ); The most popular form
of penance was the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, long and painful as it was. —
Beacon Lights of History;
lament {elegy}
• (lament)- to feel or express sorrow or regret for, ( , );
The song's lyrics take the form of a first-person lament, as the singer describes
his struggles to overcome loneliness and poverty in New York City;
• (elegy)- a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a
lament for the dead, ( ); The prevailing tone of the composition
rather is that of an elegy--the burial of fond hopes. — The Pianolist A Guide for
Pianola Players;
dirge {requiem = threnode = coronach}
• (dirge)- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in
commemoration of the dead, ( ); "Life is
what we make it--an anthem or a dirge, a psalm of hope or a lamentation of
despair."—A Princess in Calico;
• (requiem)- any musical service, hymn, or dirge for the repose of the dead,
( ); It was a requiem,
a dirge, a moan, a howl a wail, a lament, an abstract of everything that is
sorrowful and hideous in sound. — Charles Dickens and Music;
• the Mass celebrated for the repose of the souls of the dead;
• (threnode/ threnody)- a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, esp. for the
dead; dirge; funeral song;
• (coronach)- (in Scotland and Ireland) a song or lamentation for the dead;
dirge; The dismal coronach resound. — The Lady of the Lake;
deplore = expiate = atone = rue = regret = repent = mourn = plaint = lament =
bemoan = bewail = dirge