Sekirov Dictionary

repent

/ɹɪˈpɛnt/

verb 7
/ˈɹiːpənt/ adjective 1
forms 5

verb7

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To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
- Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
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To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
- If Aljunied decides to go that way (to vote for the Workers' Party), well Aljunied has five years to live and repent. — 2011
•
To be sorry for, to regret.
- I repent my sins.
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To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
- ... 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. — 1611
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(no longer used) To cause to have sorrow or regret.
- at that time she wolde nat, she seyde, for she was syke and myght nat ryde. "That me repentith," seyde the kynge[…]. — 1889
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[with oneself] (no longer used) To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.
- 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: […] — 1515
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(no longer used) To change one's mind.
- The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. — 1611

repent

/ˈɹiːpənt/

adjective1

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Creeping along the ground.
- The pennated, repent and ferine entities of the boscage, are ousels, shellducks, […] and ursine quadrupeds. — 1870

forms

repented · repenting · repenteth · repents · repentest

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