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repentance
vs
sackcloth and ashes
repentance
noun
A feeling of regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning.
The condition of being penitent.
sackcloth and ashes
How often have the words
repentance
and
sackcloth and ashes
occurred in a corpus of books?
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