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adjective

Repentant adj.

Penitent; sorry for sin. "Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood."

Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains."

noun

Repentant n. One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.

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Etymology of 'Repentant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Repentant" Quotes from Famous Books

... was one of exciting interest and of awful formality. Clothed in the sackcloth of a repentant criminal, the venerable sage fell upon his knees before the assembled cardinals, and, laying his hand upon the Holy Evangelists, he invoked the Divine aid in abjuring, and detesting, and vowing never ...

— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard

... for not marrying the man she does not love; of worse persecution from the man whom she does love, but who will not marry her, at least until he has conquered her virtue; and of perhaps worst when she feels it her duty to resist his repentant and (as such things go) honourable proffers after he has treacherously deprived her of technical honour—compassion at least is impossible to refuse. But "compassion," though it literally translates "sympathy" from Greek into Latin, is not its synonym ...

— The English Novel • George Saintsbury

... note-paper, dated two days before the murder. It was in the nature of a statement, or confession, which some whim had prompted Diane to put down in writing. Her motive became clearer to Jimmie as he read on. She had meant no treachery to Jack in her letter. She had come to London, a repentant woman, to do him a real service—to open his eyes to various things—and for that purpose she had made the appointment at Beak street on the fatal night. In all likelihood the document hidden in the closet was due to a premonition of impending evil—a ...

— In Friendship's Guise • Wm. Murray Graydon

... My repentant husband would not let the servants do my work; he must do it all himself. At first it gave me unbounded delight to be dependent on him thus for every little thing. It was a means of keeping him by my side, and my desire to have him with me had become intense since my blindness. ...

— The Hungry Stones And Other Stories • Rabindranath Tagore

... in nature, the obscure fermentations willed by the Creator. At times, therefore, he looked at the women who were in the crowd, but he immediately felt that the look was a sin, and hastened to retire, repentant, into ...

— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo

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