Repent
[rɪ'pent] or [rɪ'pɛnt]
Definition
(verb.) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about.
(verb.) turn away from sin or do penitence.
Typist: Perry--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
(a.) Same as Reptant.
(v. i.) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.
(v. i.) To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.
(v. i.) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
(v. t.) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
(v. t.) To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.
(v. t.) To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally.
Typist: Vance
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Regret, be sorry, be penitent, feel remorse.
Typed by Joan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Grieve, regret, sorrow, rue, repine, deplore, lament
ANT:Rejoice, persist
Typist: Miranda
Definition
v.i. to regret or sorrow for what one has done or left undone: to change from past evil: (theol.) to feel such sorrow for sin as produces newness of life.—v.t. to remember with sorrow—often used impersonally as 'it repenteth me.'—adj. Repent′able.—n. Repent′ance sorrow for what has been done or left undone: contrition for sin producing newness of life.—adj. Repent′ant repenting or sorry for past conduct: showing sorrow for sin.—n. a penitent.—adv. Repent′antly.—n. Repent′er.—adv. Repent′ingly.—adj. Repent′less.
adj. (bot.) creeping.
Checker: Wade
Examples
- If I say yes you will repent, and I shall repent, when it is too late! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But, Sir, I thought every story should have some sort of a moral, so I took care to have a few of my sinners repent. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Jane, you would not repent marrying me--be certain of that; we _must_ be married. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I should say, said Miss Ophelia, that he ought to repent, and begin now. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I wish you may not repent it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- You won't repent it, George. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Do the worst you can, my troubles'll be over soon; but, if ye don't repent, yours won't _never_ end! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I am glad to believe you have repented and recovered yourself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Didn't you ever keep on doing wrong, after you'd repented, my good cousin? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- For I knew that except these Mohammedans repented they would go straight to perdition some day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Young women have committed similar follies often before, and have repented them in poverty and obscurity often before. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He has repented it in sackcloth and ashes, Robert Moore, as you may well believe when you see his punishment (here she pointed to her children). Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- All this was impudence and desecration, and he repented that he had brought her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He cursed them both, and Capernaum also, for not repenting, after all the great works he had done in their midst, and prophesied against them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I began to doubt whether she might not be repenting of her engagement--just as young ladies often do, when repentance comes too late. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mr. Rushworth had, perhaps, been accepted on too short an acquaintance, and, on knowing him better, she was repenting. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- So do I, said St. Clare, peeling his orange; I'm repenting of it all the time. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She needed the relief of solitude after a day of busy thinking, and busier repenting. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Editor: Roxanne