Noun: penitential
| Singular | penitential |
| Plural | penitentials |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like penitential
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin paenitentiālis, from Latin paenitentia (“repentance”). Attested since the 16th century. See: Latin Nouns '
paenitentia'.