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Preacher's imperative
Answer for the clue "Preacher's imperative ", 6 letters:
repent
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Word definitions for repent in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repent \Re*pent"\, v. t. To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow. I do repent it from my very soul. --Shak. To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively. My father has repented him ere now. --Dryden. To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "to feel such regret for sins or crimes as produces amendment of life," from Old French repentir (11c.), from re- , here probably an intensive prefix (see re- ), + Vulgar Latin *penitire "to regret," from Latin poenitire "make sorry," from poena ...
Usage examples of repent.
And yet the malefactor had repented on the cross, and went nevertheless to paradise.
It is said that the Margravine would give herself up to debauchery and exceedingly fast living for several months at a time, and then retire to this miserable wooden den and spend a few months in repenting and getting ready for another good time.
Arlbery appeared to her indelicate, unkind, and ungenerous, and regretting she had ever seen, and repenting she had ever known her, she sunk upon a chair in a passionate burst of tears.
She looked so sweetly pretty that I repented having outraged her so scandalously.
Poor Betty repented directly you shewed her the path she was treading, and the tears she is shedding now are tears of sorrow at her mistake.
If my miracles had been done in Tyre or Sidon, they would have repented long ago.
But the bishops of the Latin provinces had no sooner reached their respective dioceses, than they discovered their mistake, and repented of their weakness.
I went on sinning every hour, and all the while most strenuously warring against sin, and repenting of every one transgression as soon after the commission of it as I got leisure to think.
For on his day I chose you to be mine, Withoute repenting, my hearte sweet.
Madeleine Witherson 334 saved and all their friends in Hollywood - will repay what she did for them by repenting also, and mending their depraved ways.
God May prove their foe, and with repenting hand Abolish his own works--This would surpass Common revenge.
Much more, therefore, by repenting, is he delivered also from all remnants of sin.
Saville reasoned, reproached, reprehended, without any avail, except that when her violence had passed its crisis, she repented, and wept, and besought forgiveness.
The discourse and the conversation that followed again melted the Sachem, and he repented and retracted, although he continued an unsafe and unstable man.
Whenever the sinner repents, reforms, puts himself in a right attitude, God is waiting to pardon and bless him, the sun shines and the happy heart is glad as at first, the cloudy screen of sin and fear and retributive alienation being removed.