All 5 Uses of
repent
in
Catch-22
- 'Okay, Yossarian,' she answered with a soft repentant laugh.†
Chpt 16 *
- 'Is he?' teased the unregenerate old man, pinching his pointy jaw gravely in a parody of repentance.†
Chpt 23
- He cursed himself for his gullibility and wished in panic for something like a mask or a pair of dark glasses and a false mustache to disguise him, or for a forceful, deep voice like Colonel Cathcart's and broad, muscular shoulders and biceps to enable him to step outside fearlessly and vanquish his malevolent persecutors with an overbearing authority and self-confidence that would make them all quail and slink away cravenly in repentance.†
Chpt 25
- Nurse Cramer was prepared to begin talking to Nurse Duckett again if she repented and apologized.†
Chpt 30
- He prayed instinctively that Yossarian, Nately, Hungry Joe and his other friends would not be listed among the victims, then berated himself repentantly, for to pray for their safety was to pray for the death of other young men he did not even know.†
Chpt 36
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