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/kəntrˈɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Contrition n.

The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing. (Obs.) "The breaking of their parts into less parts by contrition."

The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing to God; humble penitence; through repentance. "My future days shall be one whole contrition."

Synonyms: repentance; penitence; humiliation; compunction; self-reproach; remorse. Contrition, Attrition, repentance. Contrition is deep sorrow and self-condemnation, with through repetance for sin because it is displeasing to God, and implies a feeling of love toward God. Attrition is sorrow for sin, or imperfect repentance produced by fear of punishment or a sense of the baseness of sin. Repentance is a penitent renunciation of, and turning from, sin; thorough repentance produces a new life. Repentance is often used as synonymous with contrition. See Compunction.

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"Contrition" Quotes from Famous Books

... any heart left, I will bring the tear of contrition to your eye. I asked and obtained her permission to tell you all I know, and ...

— A Pessimist - In Theory and Practice • Robert Timsol

... condemnation, Somerset acknowledged with contrition that he had once mentioned to certain persons an intention of assassinating these lords; but he protested that he had never taken any measures for carrying this wicked purpose into execution. However this might be, no act of violence ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... he did not go so far as to make gratitude the subject of a corresponding formula of denunciation, he always implied that this too is really one of the false virtues. He confessed to Malesherbes, without the slightest contrition, that he was ungrateful by nature.[27] To Madame d'Epinay he once went still further, declaring that he found it hard not to hate those who had used him well.[28] Undoubtedly he was right so far ...

— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... intently lived, carefully employed; behind the pleasures lay a great tract of solid work, very diligently pursued. That was to have been the backbone of the whole; and it is for this that I have no sense of regret or contrition about it. It was an experiment; and if in one sense it failed, because it did not take account of energies and elements unused, in another sense it succeeded, because one cannot learn things in this world by hearsay, but ...

— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson

... shaping and moulding me. The evil I had done, was it indeed evil? It had been the flowering of a root of bitterness, the impact of material forces and influences. Had I ever desired it? Not in my spirit, I now felt. Sin had brought me shame and sorrow, and they had done their work. Repentance, contrition—ugly words! I laughed softly at the thought of how different it all was from what I had dreamed. I was as the lost sheep found, as the wayward son taken home; and should I spoil my joy with recalling what ...

— The Child of the Dawn • Arthur Christopher Benson

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