Crossword clues for repent
repent
- Advice to a sinner
- Advice to sinners
- Be sorry for
- Mend one's ways
- Feel remorse
- Be sorry (for)
- Feel contrition
- Evangelist's exhortation
- Turn from sin
- Regret one's sins
- Word from John the Baptist
- Warning to a sinner
- John the Baptist's exhortation
- Word in a street-corner sermon
- Turn away from the dark side
- Sunday urging
- Street-corner doomsayer's sign
- Say "I shouldn't have done that"
- Revivalist's advice
- Revival-meeting advice
- Regret one's wrongdoings
- Prepare for the Rapture
- Preacher's imperative
- Obey a father, in a way
- Mend one's sinful ways
- Heed John the Baptist
- Father's exhortation
- Evangelical exhortation
- Doomsayers sign
- Don sackcloth
- Command on a religious nut's protest sign
- Command in a fire-and-brimstone sermon
- Admonition to sinners
- Admonition to a sinner
- "Save yourself from sin!"
- "___ at leisure"
- " . . . ___ at leisure"
- Don sackcloth and ashes
- Preacher's admonition
- Heed John the Baptist's advice
- Doomsayer's sign
- Show remorse
- Get ready for Judgment Day
- Preacher's directive
- Have a change of heart
- Feel remorse for
- Say "I'm sorry"
- Evangelist's imperative
- Evangelist's cry
- Religious exhortation
- "Be saved!"
- Show contrition
- Preacher's exhortation
- Apologize for one's sins
- Start on a righteous path
- Be in a sorry state?
- Be contrite (about)
- Evangelist's admonition
- Reformer's exhortation
- Think better of
- Word in a street-corner sermon, perhaps
- Evangelist's advice
- Exhortation to sinners
- Feel contrite
- Renounce sinning
- Kept in after Religious Education — feel contrite
- Soldiers imprisoned feel remorse
- Feel genuinely sorry about gym’s charge
- Be sorry for others (second going to prison)
- Make amends
- Feel sorry for
- Be regretful
- Wish one hadn't
- Feel regret
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repent \Re"pent\ (r?"p?nt), a. [L. repens, -entis, creeping, p. pr. of repere to creep.]
(Bot.) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
--Gray.(Zo["o]l.) Same as Reptant.
Repent \Re*pent"\ (r?-p?nt"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Repented; p. pr. & vb. n. Repenting.] [F. se repentir; L. pref. re- re- + poenitere to make repent, poenitet me it repents me, I repent. See Penitent.]
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To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.
First she relents With pity; of that pity then repents.
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To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.
Lest, peradventure, the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.
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(Theol.) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
Except ye repent, ye shall likewise perish.
--Luke xii. 3.
Repent \Re*pent"\, v. t.
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To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
I do repent it from my very soul.
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To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.
My father has repented him ere now.
--Dryden. To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally. [Archaic] ``And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth.''
--Gen. vi. 6.
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 (see penal). The distinction between regret (q.v.) and repent is made in many modern languages, but the differentiation is not present in older periods. Related: Repented; repenting.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (label en 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". 2 (label en theology intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love. 3 (label en transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow. 4 (label en transitive) To be sorry for, to regret. 5 (label en archaic transitive) To cause to have sorrow or regret. 6 (label en obsolete reflexive) To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret. Etymology 2
(context chiefly botany English) creeping along the ground.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Repent is the live album by The Dead C, released in 1996 through Siltbreeze.
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.