What is another word for "contrition"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "contrition": abrasion, affriction, and, anointment, arrosion, attrite, attrition, benefit, clergy, confrication, conscience, curry, detrition, die, down, edge, elbow, file, fray, frication, friction, game, glycerine, gnaw, graceless, graze, grease, grind, hard, harden, hardened, hardness, heart, impenitence, impenitent, incorrigible, induration, irreclaimable, irrepentance, lack.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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