Citations:contrite


 * 1955 - Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Chapter 13, page 133
 * He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.
 * 1853, William Cowper, The Poetical Works of William Cowper, vol 3, Little, Brown & Co., page 9
 * The Lord will happiness divine / On contrite hearts bestow