repent

[Re·pent]

The verb repent means "to feel sorry for something you've done." When you repent, you acknowledge what you did and vow to change your ways.

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Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.

Verb
feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

Verb
turn away from sin or do penitence

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.

Repent

Re"pent (r?"p?nt), a. [L. repens, -entis, creeping, p. pr. of repere to creep.] 1. (Bot.) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems. Gray. 2. (Zo'94l.) Same as Reptant.

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.] 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.

Repent

Re*pent", 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." Gen. vi. 6.

Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.

To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.

To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

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Usage Examples

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.