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Six example sentences with contrition, each labelled with its topic.
The pilgrim's contrition fills three chapters, every night spent awake dreading what waits for him after death.
Literature
Medieval wills often record a donation made in contrition, the giver hoping to shorten his time in purgatory.
History
The painter shows the kneeling figure in an attitude of contrition, eyes lowered and hands open before the altar.
Art
Medieval thinkers asked whether contrition driven by dread of judgment counts as real repentance or merely as prudence.
Philosophy
The mass sets its words of contrition to a low, halting melody, the choir almost whispering its fear of the afterlife.
Music
Wealthy donors built chantry chapels out of contrition, hoping the prayers said there would spare them after death.
Architecture
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