penitent

Feeling or expressing remorse for one’s misdeeds or sins; contrite.

One who is penitent.

A person performing penance under the direction of a confessor.

Sorry for sin or for offense committed; contrite; troubled by a sense of guilt and resolved on amendment; repentant.

Doing penance; suffering.

One who repents, or is sorry for sin, transgression, or offending; a contrite or repentant person.

Eccles., one who makes confession of sin and undergoes, under priestly direction, the ecclesiastical discipline prescribed for its absolution.

One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.

One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.

One under the direction of a confessor.