repentance

[Re*pent·ance]

Repentance is the guilt you feel when you do something wrong and the steps you take to make up for it, like a sincere apology: repentance for hurting your friend's feelings.

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The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin.

Noun
remorse for your past conduct


n.
The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin.


Repentance

Re*pent"ance (r?-p?nt"ans), n. [F. repentance.] The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. Chaucer.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.
Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.
Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of repentance; yet they are too closely connected with it to be easily separated.
Syn. -- Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness; compunction. See Contrition.

The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin.

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Usage Examples

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

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Other Usage Examples

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

Bad men are full of repentance.

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