feeling regret for a fault or offence feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent
If you are contrite, you are very sorry because you have done something wrong. = apologetic. feeling guilty and sorry for something bad that you have done (contrit, from , past participle of conterere , from com- ( COM-) + terere )