brokenness
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈbroʊkənnəs/
- Jargon
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- Recognizing his brokenness allowed him to seek forgiveness and begin healing from past mistakes.
- his own brokenness
- live with our brokenness
Examples
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Embrace the brokenness of our lives and then find comfort and life in God.
Blog text (11) -
The mature Merton knows that the world was never static or controllable; but, as with all its brokenness, God's world is redeemed.
Academic text (1993) -
- It's just a place where we can all come with our brokenness, staff, guests, all of us.
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We have to model what it looks like to take our brokenness to Jesus by faith.
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I have had the opportunity to feel brokenness in new and different ways over the last several years.
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In all my brokenness, God wasn't done with me.
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In fact, it was that very brokenness that allowed people to let me into their hurt, and I discovered that I could be a light to others suffering in the darkness, and that is how I found life again.
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Your humble admission and brokenness are fertile ground for Him to work.
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But right now it's a time for deep reflection, prayer, humility, and walking through the brokenness you've experienced.
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But until we seek His face with brokenness and piercing repentance, there is no remedy.
Blog text (16)
Synonyms
19
8.4
A deep feeling of regret and sorrow for something you did wrong
A deep feeling of regret and sorrow for doing something wrong
Antonyms
How Repentant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Brokenness comes from broken and the ending -ness, where break means 'to break' or 'to damage' and -ness means 'state'. A helpful image is a cracked cup or a bowed person, so brokenness is the 'state of being broken' often used for deep humility or repentance.