repentance

repent | American Dictionary

repent
verb[ I/T ]
us/rɪˈpent/
to be sorry you did or did not do something:
[ I ]Jenkins returned, to repent and face justice.

Examples of repent

repent
But what if the criminal genuinely repented for his sins?
If the lessons of history have been recognized and sincerely repented, we should do better in the future.
This harm - to the carer - is adequately satisfied when we both apologize (and repent) and attempt to repair the thing cared for.
And he rejects an abbot's remonstrances with him to repent and pray.
Don't wait for him to repent before striking.
Note that in the cases of the two "madmen," one lost his tongue, and the other rescued his life only after repenting.
They should repent, he said, in order that the meeting could proceed and blessing be received.
The "first sort of enthusiasm" groups "those who imagine they have the grace which they have not": individuals claiming redemption without repenting (50).
One cannot just shrug it off - one must accept it and repent or actively reject it.
Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
The latter repented, and gave up his vice.
Since a person's repentance requires that she realize that she herself has offended, nothing lacking a first-person perspective could possibly repent.
He repents after noticing that she sleeps with the same baby-like posture he had loved in his own child.
The ' wise ', it is said, will not regret, repine, repent, nor will they pity.
Everyone should look into their hearts and repent; those who remained unrepentant and dared to commit such wrong deeds again would be punished without mercy.
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