repent

verb

/ɹɪˈpɛnt//ˈɹiːpənt/

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.

derived from paeniteo
derived from paenitīre
derived from *repaenitīre✻
derived from repentir
inherited from repenten

Definitions

1
To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do
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.
- And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
2
To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness
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.
- I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
3
To feel pain on account of
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.
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1. 4
  To be sorry for, to regret.
  - I repent my sins.
  - And what I ſaid in time of our buſines I repent not, And if it were to ſpeake againe, Euerie word ſhould be a whole ſermon, So much I repent me.
2. 5
  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[…].
  - And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
3. 6
  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: […]
4. 7
  To change one's mind.
  - The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5. 8
  Creeping along the ground.
  - The pennated, repent and ferine entities of the boscage, are ousels, shellducks, […] and ursine quadrupeds.

The neighborhood

synonymafterthink
synonymregret
synonymrue
neighborpenance
neighborpenitence
neighborpenitent
neighborpenitentiary
neighborrepentance
neighborrepentant
neighborunrepentable

Derived

marry in haste, repent at leisure, repentable, repenter, repentingly, repentless, unrepented, unrepenting

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at repent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at repent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at repent

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA