Sample Sentences for
repent
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    He always has it on the Friday of spring break because you need Saturday to recover and Sunday to repent.  (source)
    repent = regret errors and decide to change
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    I was too big a fool to repent.  (source)
    repent = feel regret
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    We will give you time to repent your words.  (source)
    repent = retract or take back
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    Bitterly did she repent the license she had given to her imagination.  (source)
    repent = regret
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    He needed a confessor to draw his mind slowly down the drab passages which led to grief and repentance.  (source)
    repentance = to feel regret for having done wrong and to desire to be a better person in the future
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    Philip Nolan, poor fellow, repented of his folly, and then, like a man, submitted to the fate he had asked for.  (source)
    repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
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    That me repenteth, said Tristram, for of all knights I loved to be in his fellowship.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She repenteth" in older English, today we say "She repents."
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    Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined. I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me.  (source)
    repentant = feeling regret for having done something wrong
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    There's lots of hard work to be done on repenting for sins.†  (source)
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    But now you are four years wiser and I am still the mischievous, unrepentant boy you remember.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrepentant means not and reverses the meaning of repentant. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    One is the mood of disgust in which Lear repents, as it were, for having been a king, and grasps for the first time the rottenness of formal justice and vulgar morality.†  (source)
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    My father's faith was bred into his bones, his principles were his sinews, and both responded to a mind richly stored with examples from the Bible, and from Nichol-son's Repentances.†  (source)
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    "Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly.  (source)
    repentantly = with a feeling of regret for having done wrong
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