Fuller knowledge of him we owe to the confessions of one of his scholars, Manelfi, recently discovered in the Venetian archives, which he wrote out voluntarily and penitently before the Inquisition, first at Bologna and then at Rome, in Oct.
He penitently confesses that his pre-Reformation celibate life, like that of most priests of his age, had not been blameless; but the moral purity of his later life is beyond suspicion.
Guilt that is penitently confessed is already in the "consuming fire" of God's love.
The Lord is waiting; let us humbly and penitently ask for the missing piece.
She understood then the hurt they had carried away with them and hoped penitently that each had found the comfort and love he had craved.
I wouldn't hurt Nanny for the world," penitentlymurmured Mr. Ainslee.
Let us penitently recognise the inconsistencies of our lives, and the reticence of our speech.
Let us not lose sight of the high ideal, that we may the more penitently recognise the miserable falling short of our reality.
To offend and repel my darling when he was returning to me, penitently returning of his own free will, was what no woman in my position, and feeling as I did, could under any earthly circumstances have brought herself to do.
He backed his chair penitently as he made that entreaty.
I penitentlyresolved to be more considerate toward his infirmities of mind and body during the remainder of my visit.
My hands that saved and scraped it all, also often-times by evil hardness, now penitently washed in the Fountain of Salvation, heartily renounce that evil.
She threw herself penitentlyon her knees before the priedieu, and the first atonement to be made for the broken vow was apparent.
And they who make themselves members of a harlot, are not members of Christ unless they have penitently abandoned that evil, and have returned to this good to be reconciled to it.
But possibly some one may say that the apostle congratulated them because they were penitently sorry, and that such sorrow can exist only in those who have sinned.
Penitently she dropped a kiss on his forehead and muttered, "Richard, you're a good son.
And she laid her handpenitently on that of Daisy, who was regarding her with an injured air, as one who was the cause of her misfortunes.
I do not believe it will hurt me, though I do feel rather tired," said Mrs. Ransom, smiling cheerfully down into the little troubled face which looked up so penitently into her own.
Wounded in a sea fight off Cape Lagos, and in dread of amputation he prayedpenitently through nearly a whole night, and in the morning the surprised surgeon told him his limb could be saved.
By a kind of hallowed psychomancy, that humble man would detect a discordant presence, and hush the voices of a congregation till the stubborn soul felt God in the stillness, and penitently surrendered.
He lay prostrate, and thanked the Master much, penitently recounting his own former follies.
As you are angry with yourself penitently for the faults you have committed, but not so as to desire your own destruction, or final hurt; but with such a displeasure as tendeth to your recovery; so also must you do by others.
Death and eternity make men wise: we easily confess and repent of many things when we come to die, which no counsels or sermons could make us penitently confess before.
And bless God that you have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, whose blood will cleanse you from your sins, if you penitently confess them; and that mercy may be yet had on so easy terms.
It was not till the week was almost over that the girls thought penitentlyof the Haddons.
T-truly I didn't mean it," and she put her cold little handpenitently over his great big one.
Nevertheless, let a tender conscience penitently ask, is it quite an innocent matter to lend a hand in rendering the age more careless than perchance, but for such ministrations, it would cease to be?
I never did," said David, so penitently that she forgave him on the spot.
Christie checked her untimely mirth, explained the probable cause of the mischief, and penitently promised to be more careful for the future.
As no priest was near at hand, he begged Grimbart the badger to listen to him, and penitently confessed all the misdeeds we have already recounted.
Parzival then penitentlyconfessed that it was he who had thus disappointed them, related his sorrow and ceaseless quest, and told the story of his early youth and adventures.
Her last angry feeling against Allan died out, and her heart went back to himpenitently the moment he left the boat.
Reverting naturally, now that his sentence of banishment had been pronounced, to his early intercourse with the cottage, his memory went back to Neelie, more regretfully and more penitently than it had gone back to her yet.
Honor, star-eyed, more utterly and completely happy and content than she had ever been in her life, turned penitentlyto Miss Bruce-Drummond.
Honor was penitently glad of the sign of fellowship.
Having proposed to write to Alban, feeling penitently that she had been in the wrong, she was now readier than ever to send him a letter, feeling compassionately that she had been in the right.
The Lord Jesus is always able and willing to help all who penitently and trustfully look to Him for pardon.
And Hatty threw her arms penitently round her sister's neck.
Ask mercy of the Lord for the salvation of your own souls through the merits, death and passion of Jesus Christ, Who now sits at the right hand of God, to make intercession for as many of you as penitently return unto Him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penitently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: attrition; compunction; contrition; humbly; penance; penitence; remorse; repentance; sheepishly
