1. (a.) Regretful, sorrowful, broken in spirit because of a sense of sin\.

2. (a.) Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.

3. (n.) A contrite person.

4. (v.) In a contrite manner.

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