Today’s “Word of the Day” is “contrition” and it is a noun meaning “the state of feeling sorry for something bad that you have done; regret, remorse, remorsefulness, sorrowfulness, repentance, penitence, ruefulness; shame, guilt, self-reproach, self-condemnation.
Example Sentence: London turned 40 this year – temperature, not age… “Hot enough for you?” people asked one another with great originality, recalling the times when summer temperature never went past the 20s… All this while the political temperature was rising too. This was Britain’s summer of discontent, made inglorious by the exit of a Prime Minister. Forced to resign, Boris Johnson did so without contrition or apology. His replacement will be either a woman or from an ethnic minority…
This word is present in The Hindu article Oh to be in England, now that it touches 40 there and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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