Q. Tell me about forgiveness. Should I forget all when someone apologizes?
A. We live in times of purification, when true colors reveal themselves.
Ask whether the 'penitence' would be there if an offender could have gotten away
with their behavior, before deciding how much to entrust to such a one in the future.
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penitent |ˈpenitnt|
adjectivefeeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentant:
a penitent ｅxpression.
noun
a person who repents their sins or wrongdoings and (in the Christian Church) seeks forgiveness
from God.
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) a person who confesses their sins to a priest and submits
to the penance that he imposes.
DERIVATIVES
penitence noun penitently adverb
ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French, from Latin paenitent-‘repenting,’
from the verb paenitere.