contrite

Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions.

• The Lord will happineſs divine / On contrite hearts beſtow : / Then tell me, gracious God, is mine / A contrite heart, or no ?

Thoroughly bruised or broken.obsolete

A contrite person; a penitent.

• Secondly, that even where contrition or inward repentance doth cleanſe without abſolution ; the reaſon why it cometh ſo to paſs, is, becauſe ſuch contrites intend and deſire Abſolution, though they have it not.