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Meaning of PENITENTIARY in Hindi

जेल

Use in sentences of जेल

    Meaning of PENITENTIARY in English

    • Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
    • Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter.
    • Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation.
    • One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
    • One who does penance.
    • A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
    • That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
    • An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.
    • An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.
    • A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.

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