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Repent
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- 1 Creeping along the ground.
"The pennated, repent and ferine entities of the boscage, are ousels, shellducks, […] and ursine quadrupeds."
- 1 To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of". intransitive
"Marry in haste, repent at leisure."
- 2 feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about wordnet
- 3 To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love. intransitive
"... Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel."
- 4 turn away from sin or do penitence wordnet
- 5 To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow. transitive
"If Aljunied decides to go that way (to vote for the Workers' Party), well Aljunied has five years to live and repent."
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- 6 To be sorry for, to regret. transitive
"I repent my sins."
- 7 To cause to have sorrow or regret. archaic, transitive
"at that time she wolde nat, she seyde, for she was syke and myght nat ryde. "That me repentith," seyde the kynge[…]."
- 8 To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret. obsolete, reflexive
"But if that I knewe what his name hight, For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]"
- 9 To change one's mind. archaic, intransitive
"The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."
Etymology
From Middle English repenten, from Old French repentir, from Vulgar Latin *repaenitīre, from Late Latin paenitīre, from Classical Latin paenitēre. Compare Modern French repentir.
From Latin rēpēns, present participle of rēpō (“I creep”).
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