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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

... the path that runs among the trees along the river bank, and she must needs repent and wish to take the lower one, the towing path, before they had gone three hundred yards. So Lewisham had to find a place fit for her descent, where a friendly tree proffered its protruding roots as a convenient balustrade, and down she clambered ...

— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells

... more I seek of thee; And thou, I think, for one year's space hast won enough of me." He spurred his steed, but, as he rode, a backward glance he bent, Still fearing to the last my Cid his promise would repent: A thing, the world itself to win, my Cid would not have done: No perfidy was ever found in him, the Perfect One. ...

— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb

... my Lord, when we laid him down by the fountain. And now his message, my Lord. He bade me say, if I survived the siege, that he had often cursed you for the worse revenge of letting him live to his remorse—now he blessed you for sparing him to repent." ...

— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge

... be baptized as an additional security, but were slow to repent. If heaven could be secured by submitting to a rite, 'multitudes' would come for it, but the crowd thins quickly when the administrator of the rite becomes the vehement preacher of repentance. That is so to-day as truly as it was so by the fords of Jordan. John demanded ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... run a spit in his guts, so John Reeve cursed her to eternity." Whereupon Turner, appalled by the sentence, complied with the order and went. The three presented themselves before the other madman, and John Reeve uttered his testimony, denouncing him as a false prophet and gave him a month to repent of his misdeeds. When the month had elapsed Reeve wrote the sentence of eternal damnation upon him "and left it at his lodging, and after a while he and his great matters perished in the sea. For he made a little boat to carry him to Jerusalem, ...

— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp

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