penitentiaries
Meaning of penitentiaries
- a prison for people convicted of serious crimes.
- (in the Roman Catholic Church) a priest appointed to administer penance.
late Middle English (as a term in ecclesiastical law): from medieval Latin paenitentiarius, from Latin paenitentia ‘repentance’. The North American usage dates from the early 19th century.
Information about penitentiaries
- It is a name.
- The singular form of penitentiaries is: penitentiary.
- Languages in which penitentiaries is used:
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Hyphenation of penitentiaries
pen-i-ten-tiaries
- It consists of 4 syllables and 14 chars.
- penitentiaries is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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