Penitential - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: penitentialPenitential
Of or pertaining to penitence or to penance expressing penitence of the nature of penance as the penitential book penitential tears...
Penitentially
In a penitential manner...
Litany
A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches in which the clergy and congregation join the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences It is usually of a penitential character...
Miserere
Miserere (have mercy). The name and first word of one of the penitential psalms, being that which was commonly used to be given by the ordinary to such condemned malefactors as were allowed the benefit of clergy, whence it is also called the Psalm of Mercy, Jac. Law Dict....
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