Sample sentences for REPENTANCE

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the feeling or expression of regret for having done something wrong with a firm decision to be a better person in the future

repentance = regret for having done wrong with a desire to be a better person in the future

repent = feel regret for having done wrong and resolve to behave better in the future

You can't repent... but you shall cry out!
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree

repent = feel regret for having done something wrong and resolve to be a better person in the future

He called down from the window to the courtyard: "Jews! Repent! It is not too late! Come with me! Save yourselves!"
Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed

repent = regret your errors and change

It was now that, for the first time, I felt any real signs of repentance.
Daniel Defoe -- Moll Flanders

repentance = regret for having done something wrong with a firm decision to be a better person in the future

Philip Nolan, poor fellow, repented of his folly, and then, like a man, submitted to the fate he had asked for.
Edward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country

repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong

Then I'll repent, and wish for all that, that I had not kill'd them.
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice

repent = feel regret for having done something wrong

He needed a confessor to draw his mind slowly down the drab passages which led to grief and repentance.
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory

repentance = to feel regret for having done wrong and to desire to be a better person in the future

No matter how many or how foul the sins if you only repent of them they will be forgiven you.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

repent = to feel regret for having done something wrong and to resolve to be a better person in the future

If I say to him, do you repent, he will say, it is as my father says.
Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country

repent = feel regret for having done wrong and resolve to be a better person in the future

repent = feel regret

I do confess it, and repent it, father.
William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure

repent = feel regret for having done wrong and resolve to be a better person in the future

But as fast as I would repent, resolving never again to hate, some demon would slip into my soul, tug at the corner, and...
Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved

repent = feel regret for having done wrong

Do you suppose heaven is like earth, where people persuade themselves that what is done can be undone by repentance; that what is spoken can be unspoken...
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman

repentance = to feel regret for having done wrong and to desire to be a better person in the future

Nobody was sure that Camp's asking God's forgiveness before he pulled the trigger counted as much as if he had lived long enough to repent after doing the deed.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree

repent = feel regret for having done wrong and resolve to be a better person in the future

repentant = felt regret for having done something wrong

Watching Woodrow Call awkwardly handling his fork caused her to repent a little of her harshness when he arrived, but she didn't apologize.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
The Bible -- Job
To the question what led him to confess, he answered that it was his heartfelt repentance.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
Do not repent that with so high and pure a feeling, you have rejected the best the earth could offer.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark

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