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repentant

adj
/ɹəˈpɛntənt/

Etymology

From Old French repentant, present participle of repentir.

  1. derived from repentant

Definitions

  1. Feeling or showing sorrow for wrongdoing.

    • I cannot believe that God wants us to kill no matter if this man is a sinner. God’s greatest commandment is one of love, not hate and revenge. I believe that this man is repentant for his wrongdoings. He has asked for forgiveness.

  2. One who repents

    One who repents; a penitent.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at repentant. 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.

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

5 hops · closes at repentant

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