Short pleasure, long repentance.
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Repentance
//ɹɪˈpɛntəns//
Synonyms for "repentance" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
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5 entriesat location
2 entriesderived
6 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesis a
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10 entriesTranslations
105 translations across 47 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μετάνοια noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
Arabic
2 entries- تَوْبَة noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- تَوْبَة noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Armenian
2 entries- ափսոսանք noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- զղջում noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- tövbə noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Belarusian
1 entries- ка́янне noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Bulgarian
3 entries- покая́ние noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- разка́яние noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- разка́яние noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Catalan
2 entries- penediment noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- penediment noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- تۆبە noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 後悔 /后悔 noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- 悔恨 noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- 悔悟 noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- 悔改 noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
Czech
3 entries- lítost noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- pokání noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- pokání noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Dutch
2 entries- berouw noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- penitentie noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Finnish
3 entries- katumus noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- tunnontuska noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- tunnonvaiva noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
French
2 entries- repentance noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- repentir noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Galician
3 entries- arrependimento noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- arrepentimento noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- arrepentimento noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
German
2 entries- Reue noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- Reue noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌹𐌳𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰 noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
Greek
3 entries- μετάνοια noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- μεταμέλεια noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- μεταμέλεια noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Hindi
4 entries- पछतावा noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- पछतावा noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- पश्चात्ताप noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- पश्चात्ताप noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Hungarian
4 entries- bűnbánat noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- bűntudat noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- lelkifurdalás noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- lelkiismeret-furdalás noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Ido
2 entries- repento noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- repento noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Irish
2 entries- aithrí noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- aithrí noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Italian
3 entries- pentimento noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- pentimento noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- rimorso noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Japanese
4 entries- 後悔 noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- 悔悟 noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- 懺悔 noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- 懺悔 noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
Kazakh
1 entries- өкіну noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Korean
3 entries- 회개 noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- 회오 noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- 후회 noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Macedonian
1 entries- покајание noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Malay
1 entries- taubat noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Māori
2 entries- rīpenetātanga noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- rīpenetātanga noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Old French
1 entries- repentance noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اوگنج noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Pashto
1 entries- توبه noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Persian
3 entries- توبه noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- پشیمانی noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- پشیمانی noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Polish
1 entries- skrucha noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Portuguese
2 entries- arrependimento noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- arrependimento noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Russian
3 entries- покая́ние noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- покая́ние noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- раска́яние noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pokajánje noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- покаја́ње noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Slovak
3 entries- kajúcnosť noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- pokánie noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- ľútosť noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Slovene
3 entries- kes noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- kesanje noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- obžalovanje noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Spanish
2 entries- arrepentimiento noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- arrepentimiento noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Swahili
1 entries- kitubio noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
Swedish
2 entries- ruelse noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- ånger noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Tajik
2 entries- пушаймонӣ noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- тавба noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Tocharian B
1 entries- onmiṃ noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
Turkish
2 entries- tövbe noun (condition of being repentant, penitent)
- tövbe noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ка́яння noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- каяття́ noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- покая́ння noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
- розка́яння noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Uzbek
1 entries- tavba noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ăn năn noun (feeling of regret or remorse)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
His face expresses deep sorrow and repentance.
Source: tatoeba (2752814)
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
Source: tatoeba (3073769)
The priest went into the confessional blindfolded. He didn't want to see the sinner; he wanted to guide him for his repentance.
Source: tatoeba (4538769)
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