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verb

Repent v. t.

1.

To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow. "I do repent it from my very soul."

2.

To feel regret or sorrow; used reflexively. "My father has repented him ere now."

3.

To cause to have sorrow or regret; used impersonally. (Archaic) "And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth."

Repent v. i. (past & past part. repented; pres. part. repenting)

1.

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."

2.

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."

3.

(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."

adjective

Repent adj.

1.

(Bot.) Prostrate and rooting; said of stems.

2.

(Zool.) Same as Reptant.

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Etymology of 'Repent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Repent" Quotes from Famous Books

... tells us to repent; and He says, 'Give me thine heart;' you can do that; you can love Jesus; at least He will enable you to, if you ask Him, and He will teach you to be sorry for your sins; the Bible says, 'He is exalted to give repentance and remission of sins;' and if you ask Him He will give them to you. ...

— Elsie Dinsmore • Martha Finley

... below. But through it all, and underlying it all, is Bellevue street, with the dirty men and women, who scream and shout at each other and wrangle in its filthy courts and alleys. Still, God knows that I don't repent, and that I ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various

... hundred dollars in one year. I earn fifteen hundred a year and there's six hundred in the bank. We've just one year and two months to live. We'd better begin to repent," he said to himself. ...

— The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives • Elizabeth Strong Worthington

... who has sent gifts, and has despatched the best and most honored ambassadors; that he himself was worthy to be heard, being his tutor and teacher; that if he let the present occasion go, he would repent. He makes use of the example of Meleager who, when called upon to help his fatherland, did not heed until by the necessity of the calamities that overtook the city he turned to defend, it. But Ajax used neither entreaty nor pity, ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

... flustered and confused, thinking that half of us would have been shot dead, that—will ye believe it?—I never yet had mind to pull the tricker. Howsomever, I minded aye with the rest to ram down a fresh cartridge at the word of command; and something told me I would repent not doing like the rest, (for I had half a kind of notion that my piece never went off;) so, when the firing was over, the sergeant of the company ordered all that had loaded pieces to come to the front. I swithered ...

— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir

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