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— English words —

• penitent adj. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one’s sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt.
• penitent adj. Doing penance.
• penitent n. One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
• penitent n. One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
• penitent n. One under the direction of a confessor.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Polish
  • penitent n. (Roman Catholicism) penitent (who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions).
  • penitent n. Penitente (tall thin blade of hardened snow or ice, found closely spaced in large quantities at high altitudes).
• Romanian
  • penitent adj. Penitent.

— English word, defined in French —

• penitent adj. Pénitent.

— In Dutch —

• penitent n. Iemand die berouw heeft van zijn misdaden.

— In French —

• pénitent n.m. (Religion) Celui qui se repent de ses péchés et fait pénitence…
• pénitent n.m. (Par extension) Membre d’une confrérie religieuse qui organise…
• pénitent adj. (Religion) Qui a regret d’avoir offensé Dieu, qui est dans…
• pénitent adj. Qui fait pénitence.

49 English words from 8 English definitions

account account␣of admitted altitudes blade but Catholicism censure church closely confessor direction Doing feeling found guilt hardened high ice large of␣a offenses on␣account on␣account␣of one One␣under pain penance penitent Penitente quantities repents Roman Roman␣Catholicism sin sincere sins snow sorrow sorrowful spaced tall the their thin transgressions under undergoing who

14 English words from 6 foreign definitions

dans die est extension fait Membre organise Par regret religieuse Religion repent ses van

16 foreign words from 6 foreign definitions

avoir berouw Celui confrérie Dieu heeft Iemand misdaden offensé Par␣extension péchés pénitence Pénitent qui une zijn

10 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

penitente penitents penitentes penitently penitential penitentials penitentiary penitentially penitentiaries penitentiaryship

6 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

impenitents impenitently unpenitently micropenitente nonpenitential micropenitentes

3 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

impenitent unpenitent nonpenitent

15 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ent ENT -ent ent- ITE -ite nit nite pen Pen PEN ten TEN tent tent.

14 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ETI -ine nep Nep NEP net Net NET .NET neti tin TIN tine Tine

7 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

neptunite pænitent penitente penitents pentiment pertinent pœnitent

3 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

pentine Pinette Tenneti

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

penitant renitent

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

pænitent pœnitent

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