penitence
🇺🇸
/ˈpenɪtəns/
🇬🇧
/ˈpenɪtəns/
noun
R
The feeling that you have when you know you did something wrong and you wish you hadn't.
After stealing the money, he showed true penitence by returning it and apologizing.
偷钱后，他通过归还并道歉表现出了真正的悔改。
translation
悔改
词形变化
Plural
penitences