penitent

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1. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt.

2. Doing penance.

3. One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.

4. One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.

5. One under the direction of a confessor.