English words for 'Excessive apology.'
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noun
intj
adj
- Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
- (of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
- (of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
- Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
- bad; unfortunate
- without merit; of little or no value or use
- causing dejection
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
verb
adj
noun
- An excuse; an apology.
- (law) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
- (law) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
- (law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
- An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
- (law) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
- That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
- (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer)
- a humble request for help from someone in authority
- an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed
verb
noun
phrase
- Sorry, as an apology.
- Said as a request to pass somebody.
- Said as a request for an individual's attention.
- (Canada, US) Said as a request to repeat information.
- (formal) Said as an expression of unexpected or early farewell.
- (Canada, US) Said, as though as a request to repeat information, in order to indicate disbelief or indignation.
noun
noun
- An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).
- A formal justification, defence.
- Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.
- an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone
- a poor example
- a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly
noun
- remorse for your past conduct
- voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
- a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
- A sacrament in some Christian churches that involves penitence (remorse plus restitution via prayer).
- Any instrument of self-punishment.
- A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
verb
noun
verb
verb
- feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
- decline formally or politely
- express with regret
- feel sad about the loss or absence of
- To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
- (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
noun
- sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
- A person invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.
- (decision theory) The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.
- Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
verb
- feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
- (transitive) To be sorry for, to regret.
- turn away from sin or do penitence
- (theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
- (transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
- (intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
adj
verb
noun
- sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
- (French) a street or road in France
- European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
- leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy
- Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
noun
- Forgiveness for an offence.
- (law) An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.
- a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
- the act of excusing a mistake or offense
- the formal act of liberating someone
intj
verb
noun
- A confession.
- (Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
- (reality television) A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.
- a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
adj
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- be willing to concede
- acknowledge defeat
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
- (sports) To have a goal or point scored against
- To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
- To yield or make concession.
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
- confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
- (transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
- (transitive) To disclose or reveal.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the context of Japanese media) To profess one's love.
- (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
- take vows, as in religious order
- state freely
- confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
- state insincerely
- receive into a religious order or congregation
- (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
- (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
- (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
- (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
- (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
noun
intj
adj
- Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
- (of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
- (of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
- Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
- bad; unfortunate
- without merit; of little or no value or use
- causing dejection
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
verb
noun
- An excuse; an apology.
- (law) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
- (law) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
- (law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
- An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
- (law) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
- That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
- (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer)
- a humble request for help from someone in authority
- an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed
verb
noun
noun
- An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).
- A formal justification, defence.
- Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.
- an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone
- a poor example
- a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly
noun
- remorse for your past conduct
- voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
- a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
- A sacrament in some Christian churches that involves penitence (remorse plus restitution via prayer).
- Any instrument of self-punishment.
- A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- Forgiveness for an offence.
- (law) An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.
- a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
- the act of excusing a mistake or offense
- the formal act of liberating someone
intj
verb
noun
- A confession.
- (Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
- (reality television) A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.
- a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
adj
verb
- feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
- decline formally or politely
- express with regret
- feel sad about the loss or absence of
- To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
- (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
noun
- sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
- A person invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.
- (decision theory) The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.
- Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
verb
- feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
- (transitive) To be sorry for, to regret.
- turn away from sin or do penitence
- (theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
- (transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
- (intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
adj
verb
noun
- sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
- (French) a street or road in France
- European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
- leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy
- Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens (common rue), formerly used in medicines.
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- be willing to concede
- acknowledge defeat
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
- (sports) To have a goal or point scored against
- To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
- To yield or make concession.
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
- confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
- (transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
- (transitive) To disclose or reveal.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the context of Japanese media) To profess one's love.
- (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
verb
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
- take vows, as in religious order
- state freely
- confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
- state insincerely
- receive into a religious order or congregation
- (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
- (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
- (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
- (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
- (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).