contriteness
31repentance — Synonyms and related words: Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, abject apology, apology, asceticism, attrition, change of heart, cold purgatorial fires, compunction, contriteness, contrition, deathbed repentance, fasting, flagellation, hair shirt,… …
32rue — Synonyms and related words: affliction, anguish, be sorry for, bemoan, bewail, care, commiseration, compassion, compunction, contriteness, contrition, deplore, dole, grief, heartache, heartbreak, penance, penitently, regret, remorse,… …
33shame — Synonyms and related words: abasement, abash, abashment, abomination, apologies, atrocity, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, bad, besmirch, bitterness, blacken, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bully, burning shame,… …
34sorrow — Synonyms and related words: ache, adversity, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agonize, agony, anguish, apologies, attrition, ayenbite of inwit, bad luck, bemoan, bemoaning, bewail, bewailing, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill,… …
35attrition — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. abrasion (See deterioration, friction). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. wearing down, wearing away, friction, rubbing, abrasion, weakening, grinding down, erosion, depreciation, gradual disintegration,… …
36compunction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. regret, remorse; scruple, twinge. See penitence, doubt. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A sense of guilt or remorse] Syn. remorse, contrition, shame; see regret 1 , repentance , shame 2 . 2. [A twinge of… …
37penitence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Contrition Nouns 1. penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse, regret. 2. self reproach, self reproof, self accusation, self condemnation, self humiliation; pangs, qualms, prickings, twinge …
38remorse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. self reproach, regret, compunction, contrition, penitence. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. compunction, contrition, self reproach, guilt; see regret 1 , repentance , shame 2 . See Synonym Study at repentance …
39contrition — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. penitence, remorse, sorrow; see penance 1 , 2 , regret 1 , repentance . See Synonym Study at repentance . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. remorse, repentance, regret, guilt, sorrow, compunction, shame, penitence, self… …
40rue — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. deplore, lament, be sorry; see mourn 1 , regret 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. regret, be remorseful, lament, *be sick about, deplore, repent, bemoan, fret over, be sorry for, grieve. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb …
