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.
偷錢後，他通過歸還並道歉表現出了真正的悔改。
translation
悔改
詞形變化
Plural
penitences