"penitential tears" "wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words"
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用作形容词(adj.)
The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and, according to the canons themselves, nothing should be imposed on the dying.悔罪的教义只能加于生者之身,并且根据教义自身,不应该有加于死者之上的。