Today's Word "contrite"
Deeply affected with grief
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contrite \KON-tryt; kuhn-TRYT\ (adjective) - 1 : Deeply affected with grief and regret for having done wrong; penitent; as, "a contrite sinner." 2 : Expressing or arising from contrition; as, "contrite words."
"Often he'd look contrite and even apologize, later sending her roses and violets, even a bad poem."
Contrite derives from Latin conterere, "to rub away, to grind," hence "to obliterate, to abase," from con- + terere, "to rub, to rub away."
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