All 14 Uses of
repent
in
Middlemarch
- Some people miss that, and repent too late.†
Chpt 2
- "My dear Dorothea—'who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven nor earth:'—you do not think me worthy to be banished by that severe sentence," said Mr. Casaubon, exerting himself to make a strong statement, and also to smile faintly.†
Chpt 2
- All this was impudence and desecration, and he repented that he had brought her.†
Chpt 2 *
- "Dictator, now," said Letty, with injured looks, and not without a wish to make her mother repent.†
Chpt 3
- "There's things you might repent of, Brother, for want of speaking to me," said Solomon, not advancing, however.†
Chpt 3
- With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.†
Chpt 6
- He had long poured out utterances of repentance.†
Chpt 6
- But today a repentance had come which was of a bitterer flavor, and a threatening Providence urged him to a kind of propitiation which was not simply a doctrinal transaction.†
Chpt 6
- Sir James, glancing at her, repented of his stratagem; but Mrs. Cadwallader, equal to all occasions, spread the palms of her hands outward and said—"Heaven grant it, my dear!†
Chpt 6
- If you led a harmful life for gain, and kept others out of their rights by deceit, to get the more for yourself, I dare say you repent—you would like to go back, and can't: that must be a bitter thing"—Caleb paused a moment and shook his head—"it is not for me to make your life harder to you."†
Chpt 7
- The truth is, he knew nothing of this man Raffles, or that there were any bad secrets about him; and he thought that Mr. Bulstrode offered him the money because he repented, out of kindness, of having refused it before.†
Chpt 8
- She made a very pretty show with her daughters, driving out in her carriage, and often spoke of her happiness as "a reward"—she did not say for what, but probably she meant that it was a reward for her patience with Tertius, whose temper never became faultless, and to the last occasionally let slip a bitter speech which was more memorable than the signs he made of his repentance.†
Chpt Fin.
- Still, she never repented that she had given up position and fortune to marry Will Ladislaw, and he would have held it the greatest shame as well as sorrow to him if she had repented.†
Chpt Fin.
- Still, she never repented that she had given up position and fortune to marry Will Ladislaw, and he would have held it the greatest shame as well as sorrow to him if she had repented.†
Chpt Fin.
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