Word Finder - repenting

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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".

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To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.

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If you are a true Muslim, you should repent to Allah.

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To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

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To be sorry for, to regret.

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I repent my sins.

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To cause to have sorrow or regret.

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To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.

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Repentance

Repenting of this step, he subsequently attempted to regain Turin, but was imprisoned in.

A rising was organized for February 1831; but Francis got wind of it, and, repenting of his dangerous dallying with revolution, arrested Menotti and fled to Austrian territory with his prisoner.

He also wrote The Sighs of the Repenting Magdalen and the unfinished tragedy Judith.

What is the definition, then, that the Lord gives of a repenting sinner?

Though Depretis, at the end of his life in 1887, showed signs of repenting of the confusion thus created, he had established a parliamentary system destined largely to sterilize and vitiate the political life of Italy.

Then, repenting this ill-judged step, he hurried in person to the French camp at Pietra Santa and humbled himself before the king.

Somewhat later Ibrahim Khalil of Shusha, repenting of his Russophilism, determined to deliver up the Muscovite garrison at that place, but his plans were betrayed, and he and his relatives put to death.

About 1067 he bought the earldom of Northumberland from William the Conqueror; but, repenting of his submission, fled with other Englishmen to the court of Scotland (1068).