contrition
noun
[ kənˈtrɪʃ(ə)n ]
• the state of feeling remorseful and penitent.
• "to show contrition for his crime he offered to do community service"
Similar:
remorse,
remorsefulness,
repentance,
penitence,
sorrow,
sorrowfulness,
regret,
contriteness,
ruefulness,
pangs of conscience,
prickings of conscience,
shame,
guilt,
self-reproach,
self-condemnation,
compunction,
rue,
sorriness,
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from late Latin contritio(n- ), from contrit- ‘ground down’, from the verb conterere (see contrite).
