Both Uses of
repent
in
The Hobbit
- We will give you time to repent your words.†
Chpt 15 *
- Yet even though you were willing to lay aside all your claim, I should wish that the words of Thorin, of which he repented, should not prove true: that we should give you little.†
Chpt 18
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