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  • 121Satanta (chief) — Satanta This article refers to the Kiowa chief Satanta. For the Irish hero Sétanta, please see Cú Chulainn. Satanta (ca. 1820 1878) was a Kiowa war chief. He was a member of the Kiowa tribe, he was born around 1820, during the height of the power …

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  • 122Delirium (Cooper novel) — Delirium   Author(s) Douglas Cooper …

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  • 123contrite — I adjective apologetic, broken in spirit, chastened, compunctious, conscience smitten, conscience stricken, desirous of forgiveness, full of regrets, full of remorse, guilty, humble, humbled, paenitet, penitent, penitential, regretful, regretting …

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  • 124KYD, Thomas — (1558 1594) Industrious Kyd was how Thomas Kyd s contemporaries referred to the father of the revenge tragedy. Yet this influential Elizabethan playwright, trans­lator, poet, and pamphleteer was so humble that he rarely signed and at the most… …

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  • 125contrite — a. Penitent, repentant, humble, broken in spirit …

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  • 126contrite — /kənˈtraɪt / (say kuhn truyt), /ˈkɒntraɪt / (say kontruyt) adjective 1. broken in spirit by a sense of guilt; penitent: *She seemed altogether humble and contrite, small, even hunched, she who had been proud, on her powerful horse. –patrick white …

  • 127Namatjira — /næməˈdʒɪərə/ (say namuh jearruh) noun Albert, 1902–59, Australian painter; noted for his watercolour landscapes of central Australia; worked at the Hermannsburg mission, NT. Albert Namatjira, a member of the Arrernte people, was born and spent… …

  • 128con|trite´ness — con|trite «kuhn TRYT, KON tryt», adjective. 1. broken in spirit by a sense of guilt; penitent: »The boy felt contrite after he had hit his little sister. ... an humble and a contrite heart (Rudyard Kipling). SYNONYM(S): repentant, sorrowful,… …

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