contriteness

"Either there's a full confession and contriteness or there's no deal."

She would watch and, shocked into contriteness, apologize profusely for speaking to me like that.

Major Tzann could not help but pick up on the missing contriteness.

He bent his head in prayer, a prayer of contriteness and self-accusation.

The formality of her tone showed more anger than contriteness to Secca.

It took only a second for Torrna's face to go from amused contriteness to vicious fury.

The contriteness was close to genuine.

Ms. Shepherd responded a hint of contriteness: "Yes, I did.

Occasionally, spurts of anger or petulance, to be invariably followed, the next class period, by contriteness and apology, broke this illusion.

Picking up the dropped camera, Jay dangled it from one powerful hand, said with dead-pan contriteness, "I never missed a step before.

Flinty resentment surged through Jeremiah Coverman's contriteness.

Her eyes were large and dark and had a special dimension inward, an element of contriteness, as of a child always on the verge of being punished.

Judge Roberts continued to ask Dr. Canedo if he did not think that contriteness reflected normal behavior in one "who had just created this terrible tragedy."

One reporter wrote, "Perhaps the candid Nebraskan would tell you in a moment of frank contriteness that the prime object of this exposition was to boom Omaha."

Contrition or contriteness (from the Latin contritus 'ground to pieces', i.e. crushed by guilt) is sincere and complete remorse for sins one has committed.

The closest Mr. Florio would come to the contriteness that some of his questioners tried to draw from him was an admission that "one could always do better."

His forelegs waving in contriteness, Jeyri said, "My apologies, Captain Klag, but--" "But nothing."

And, ere the excitement began to ebb, nine-tenths of his congregation and all his converts were down on knees and praying and shouting aloud an immensity of contriteness and sin.

A year later, after John and his mother returned to England, Emma received a letter from his mother, who poured out her contriteness and apologized profusely for what she now knew was a terrible mistake.

"The regent will understand," said Kirk, with a contriteness he did not feel, "if my concern for not only a Federation citizen but a blood relation of mine temporarily took precedence over my duties as a diplomat."

The Mayor's contriteness, however, did not mollify many of the 150 Upper East Side residents who gathered in an auditorium at the New York Blood Center at 310 East 67th Street last night.

Justice Burton B. Roberts asked the witness, Dr. Angelo Canedo, if he "was familiar with the term contriteness," apparently a reference to Mr. Gonzalez's taped confession, made shortly after the fire, in which he seemed to express regret for the fire.