The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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n. repentance vb. (present participle of repent English)
Usage examples of "repenting".
Therefore, dear reader, I trust that, far from attaching to my history the character of impudent boasting, you will find in my Memoirs only the characteristic proper to a general confession, and that my narratory style will be the manner neither of a repenting sinner, nor of a man ashamed to acknowledge his frolics.
After spending two wearisome hours with Medini, whose wit was great and his judgment small, after heartily repenting of having yielded to my curiosity and having paid him a visit, I said shortly that I could do nothing for him.
This prince must have felt the misery of repenting everything he had done and of seeing the impossibility of undoing it, partly because it was irreparable, partly because if he had undone through reason what he had done through senselessness, he would have thought himself dishonoured, for he must have clung to the last to the belief of the infallibility attached to his high birth, in spite of the state of languor of his soul which ought to have proved to him the weakness and the fallibility of his nature.
I know likewise that, if I was taken for a coward before leaving Venice, now that I have returned no one shall insult me without repenting it.
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.
This principle was sufficient thenceforward to rid me of all those repentings and pangs of remorse that usually disturb the consciences of such feeble and uncertain minds as, destitute of any clear and determinate principle of choice, allow themselves one day to adopt a course of action as the best, which they abandon the next, as the opposite.