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Syn. Penitent; repentant; humble; sorrowful. Contrite Contrite Contriteness Contrition The breaking of their parts into less parts by contrition. My future days shall be one whole contrition. Syn. repentance; penitence; humiliation; compunction; self-reproach; remorse. Contrition, Attrition, repentance. Contrition is deep sorrow and self-condemnation, with through repetance for sin because it is displeasing to God, and implies a feeling of love toward God. Attrition is sorrow for sin, or imperfect repentance produced by fear of punishment or a sense of the baseness of sin. Repentance is a penitent renunciation of, and turning from, sin; thorough repentance produces a new life. Repentance is often used as synonymous with contrition. See Compunction. Contriturate Contrivable A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Syn. Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project; design; artifice; shift. See Device. Contrive What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Syn. To invent; discover; plan; design; project; plot; concert; hatch. |
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