| 词汇 | repentance |
| 释义 | repentance noun[ U ] uk /rɪˈpen.təns/ us /rɪˈpen.təns/ the fact of showing that you are very sorry for something bad you have done in the past, and wish that you had not done it: 悔恨 This was an extremely violent crime, for which the boy showed no repentance.这是一起极其暴力的罪行，男孩对此毫无悔意。 Her passionate repentance for her sins is real.她对自己罪过的积极悔改是诚心诚意的。 See repent He preached repentance and forgiveness. They expressed repentance for their actions. If there is no true repentance, criminals will commit the same crimes again. Sadness and regret aw be/weigh on your conscienceidiom bitter black dog breastbeating cry doom and gloom feel badidiom gloominess glumness groan guilt melancholia prick prick someone's conscienceidiom regretful regretfully remorse repentant wretchedness You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Making & accepting apologies Examples of repentancerepentance Converts preached publicly, orally, about private wrongs, calling impotent, beery men to repentance. This condition would depend on the free response, of repentance, of wrongdoers. Is it possible to generate these two effects even in the absence of repentance or the victim's opportunity to observe the perpetrator's change of life? This paper identifies two others: ' justifications', for behaviour that associated with weight gain, and ' repentance ', for behaviour that reaffirmed a commitment to losing weight. But this repentance itself requires that we do what we can to deal with the wrongs we do to other human beings. A positive dimension of this is that there is always the possibility of repentance. The repentance explanation was not, however, the dominant hypothesis which twelfth-century theologians and canonists used to resolve the contradiction. Our repentance could properly be seen merely as an occasion for this forgiveness, not a cause of it. Thus, repentance does two things that make forgiveness possible. Of course, the debtor exposes himself as a shyster, and we quickly learn of the son's repeated attempts, and failures, at repentance. Repentance can be much more difficult than maturing. Repentance is sufficient to remove a bad intention. It seems to me that appropriate reparation in such cases is merely apology, where such apology of course presupposes genuine repentance. Clearly, the real difficulty here lies in repentance, not in apology. And repentance was the end of the deed. See all examples of repentance These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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