Definitions
showing or constituting penance
Word origin
From Middle English penitentiary, from Medieval Latin pēnitentiārius (“place of penitence”), from Latin paenitentia (“penitence”), term used by the Quakers in Pennsylvania during the 1790s, describing a place for penitents to dwell upon their sins.
Used in a sentence
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:penitentiary.”
“Topics which a priest may not treat , and which bishops declare are unfit for sacramental confession even in penitentiaries, become , with either public or private approval , the subject - matter of platform speeches”
“A penitentiary tax.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Prison”12 letters
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