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penitential Psalm
noun
- any of the Psalms (the 6th, 32nd, 38th, 51st, 102nd, 130th, and 143rd) that give expression to feelings of penitence and that are used in various Christian liturgical services.
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The imagination of the audience is worked upon, and all are hushed with breathless curiosity while the penitential psalm is sung.
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They look around them when the penitential psalm is being sung, and they smile bitterly to themselves.
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The dishes contain scorpions and snakes, the wine is gall and verjuice, and the table music is a penitential psalm.
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A penitential psalm declares that what is pleasing to oneself may be sinful in the eyes of a god.
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A prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm.
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