All 8 Uses of
repent
in
Emma
- They seem very comfortable as they are, and if she were to take any pains to marry him, she would probably repent it.†
Chpt 1.3-4 *
- She did not repent what she had done; she still thought herself a better judge of such a point of female right and refinement than he could be; but yet she had a sort of habitual respect for his judgment in general, which made her dislike having it so loudly against her; and to have him sitting just opposite to her in angry state, was very disagreeable.†
Chpt 1.7-8
- She was sorry, but could not repent.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- If I were to marry, I must expect to repent it.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- —She could not repent.†
Chpt 2.5-6
- CHAPTER IX Emma did not repent her condescension in going to the Coles.†
Chpt 2.9-10
- — She felt the engagement to be a source of repentance and misery to each: she dissolved it.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- —She felt the engagement to be a source of repentance and misery to each—she dissolved it.†
Chpt 3.15-16
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