All 4 Uses of
repent
in
The War of the Worlds
- —when I should have stood up, though I died for it, and called upon them to repent-repent!†
Chpt 2.4 *
- —when I should have stood up, though I died for it, and called upon them to repent-repent!†
Chpt 2.4
- He talked with his voice rising slowly, through the greater part of the eighth and ninth days—threats, entreaties, mingled with a torrent of half-sane and always frothy repentance for his vacant sham of God's service, such as made me pity him.†
Chpt 2.4
- For a moment I believed that the destruction of Sennacherib had been repeated, that God had repented, that the Angel of Death had slain them in the night.†
Chpt 2.8
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