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Definitioner
Adjektiv
- Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions; apologetic.
- (obsolete) Thoroughly bruised or broken.
Substantiv
- A contrite person; a penitent.
Exempel
- 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.
- The Lord will happiness divine / On contrite hearts bestow
Böjningsformer
| Plural | contrites |
| Komparativ | more contrite |
| Superlativ | most contrite |