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 Translation for 'contrition' from English to French
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NOUN   contrition | -
SYNO attrition | contriteness | contrition
remords {m}contrition
componction {f} [sentiment de tristesse]contrition
relig.
contrition {f}
contrition
avec contrition {adv}with contrition
relig.
acte {m} de contrition
act of contrition
relig.
repentance {f} [littéraire]
act of contrition
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  • contrition {f} = contrition
  • avec contrition = contritely
  • avec contrition = with contrition
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Usage Examples English
  • An Act of Contrition is a Christian prayer genre that expresses sorrow for sins.
  • Essential to the sacrament are acts both by the sinner (examination of conscience, contrition with a determination not to sin again, confession to a priest, and performance of some act to repair the damage caused by sin) and by the priest (determination of the act of reparation to be performed and absolution).
  • Taylor was born in Armagh in Northern Ireland. Despite this contrition, in May 2018 Taylor once again referred to Varadkar as a "typical Indian" following Varadkar's visit to Northern Ireland.
  • Jansenist Antoine Arnauld said that the reason for Caussin's fall from grace was that he spoke against the efficacy of Imperfect contrition.
  • Repentance is reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs, which is accompanied by commitment to and actual actions that show and prove a change for the better.

  • The formal doctrine of the Church, announced through the Council of Trent, declares that contrition has always been necessary to obtain pardon of one's sins.
  • Jansenism is the belief that imperfect contrition is insufficient for a Christian receiving the Eucharist.
  • Irrespective of what lay behind Harich's overblown contrition, it stood in stark contrast to the reaction of Walter Janka The former friends remained unreconciled for the rest of their lives.
  • Leon Wessels (born 19 April 1946) is a South African lawyer, politician, and activist who served in the National Party government during the apartheid years and was one of very few Afrikaner politicians to show public contrition for the acts of that government.
  • The General Confession is a prayer of contrition in various Christian denominations, including Anglicanism, Methodism, and Roman Catholicism.

  • behaved with great fortitude; no appearances of fear were to be perceived, but very evident signs of contrition and repentance".
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