All 14 Uses of
repent
in
Wuthering Heights
- But the poor dame had reason to repent of her kindness: she and her husband both took the fever, and died within a few days of each other.†
Chpt 9 *
- While Miss Linton moped about the park and garden, always silent, and almost always in tears; and her brother shut himself up among books that he never opened — wearying, I guessed, with a continual vague expectation that Catherine, repenting her conduct, would come of her own accord to ask pardon, and seek a reconciliation — and SHE fasted pertinaciously, under the idea, probably, that at every meal Edgar was ready to choke for her absence, and pride alone held him from running to…†
Chpt 12
- I repented having tried this second entrance, and was almost inclined to slip away before he finished cursing, but ere I could execute that intention, he ordered me in, and shut and re-fastened the door.†
Chpt 13
- ' "Isabella, let me in, or I'll make you repent!" he "girned," as Joseph calls it.†
Chpt 17
- Meantime, our young companion, who sat too removed from us to hear what was said, began to evince symptoms of uneasiness, probably repenting that he had denied himself the treat of Catherine's society for fear of a little fatigue.†
Chpt 21
- Miss Cathy — conversant with no bad deeds except her own slight acts of disobedience, injustice, and passion, arising from hot temper and thoughtlessness, and repented of on the day they were committed — was amazed at the blackness of spirit that could brood on and cover revenge for years, and deliberately prosecute its plans without a visitation of remorse.†
Chpt 21
- She threw at me a very naughty look, so naughty that I would not kiss her good-night at first: I covered her up, and shut her door, in great displeasure; but, repenting half-way, I returned softly, and lo! there was Miss standing at the table with a bit of blank paper before her and a pencil in her hand, which she guiltily slipped out of sight on my entrance.†
Chpt 21
- And believe that your kindness has made me love you deeper than if I deserved your love: and though I couldn't, and cannot help showing my nature to you, I regret it and repent it; and shall regret and repent it till I die!"†
Chpt 24
- And believe that your kindness has made me love you deeper than if I deserved your love: and though I couldn't, and cannot help showing my nature to you, I regret it and repent it; and shall regret and repent it till I die!"†
Chpt 24
- 'You should be friends with your cousin, Mr. Hareton,' I interrupted, 'since she repents of her sauciness.†
Chpt 32
- 'Accursed witch! this time she has provoked me when I could not bear it; and I'll make her repent it for ever!'†
Chpt 33
- 'Let your will be a while: you'll be spared to repent of your many injustices yet!†
Chpt 34
- Well, never mind Mr. Green: as to repenting of my injustices, I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing.†
Chpt 34
- Well, never mind Mr. Green: as to repenting of my injustices, I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(repent) to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future