Evanescent vs Penitent - What's the difference?
evanescent | penitent |
Vanishing, disappearing.
* 1837 , , "Footprints on the Sea-Shore" in Twice-Told Tales :
* 1911 , , Initials Only , ch. 19:
Ephemeral, momentary, fleeting.
* 1851 , , Moby Dick , ch. 46:
Barely there; almost imperceptible.
* 1888 , , "The Withered Arm":
* 1907 , , The Secret Agent , ch. 7:
* 1916 , , Twilight in Italy , ch. 1:
Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.
* 1838 , , (The Anatomy of Melancholy) , B. Blake, p.730,
* Milton
Doing penance.
One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his or her transgressions.
One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
* 1837 , William Russell, The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Longman, Rees, & Co., page 20,
One under the direction of a confessor.
As adjectives the difference between evanescent and penitent
is that evanescent is evanescent while penitent is penitent.As a noun penitent is
penitent.evanescent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The sea was each little bird's great playmate. . . . In their airy flutterings, they seemed to rest on the evanescent spray.
- . . . making the ideal of my foolish girlhood seem as unsubstantial and evanescent as a dream in the glowing noontide.
- In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent .
- Her face too was fresh in colour, but it was of a totally different quality—soft and evanescent , like the light under a heap of rose-petals.
- While he was speaking the hands on the face of the clock behind the great man's back—a heavy, glistening affair of massive scrolls in the same dark marble as the mantelpiece, and with a ghostly, evanescent tick—had moved through the space of seven minutes.
- And I was pale, and clear, and evanescent , like the light, and they were dark, and close, and constant, like the shadow.
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* See alsoSee also
* evanescence ----penitent
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) * (qualifier)Adjective
(en adjective)- If thou be penitent and grieved, or desirous to be so, these heinous sins shall not be laid to thy charge.
- Be penitent , and for thy fault contrite.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Wamba, who defeated the Saracens in an attempt upon Spain, was deprived of the crown, because he had been clothed in the habit of a penitent , while labouring under the influence of poison, administered by the ambitious Erviga!
