Definizione monolingua

contrite

contrite (comparative more contrite, superlative most contrite)

1. Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions; apologetic.
   • 1955, Joseph Heller, Catch-22^[1], chapter 13, page 133:

     He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.

   • 1853, William Cowper, The Poetical Works of William Cowper^[2], volume 3, Little, Brown & Co., page 9:

     The Lord will happiness divine / On contrite hearts bestow

Definizione dizionario contrite

	contrito
	Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions.

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Altri significati:

Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions; apologetic.

Sincerely penitent