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Prisoners who repent are more likely to be released on parole.repent = to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future
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Prisoners who show repentance are more likely to be released on parole.repentance = regret for having done wrong with a desire to be a better person in the future
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She said the U.S. should repent for the sins of fossil fuels.repent = feel regret for having done wrong and want to behave better in the future
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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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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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He called down from the window to the courtyard: “Jews! Repent! It is not too late! Come with me! Save yourselves!” (source)Repent = regret your errors and change
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I was too big a fool to repent. (source)repent = feel 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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Alas, me sore repenteth, said the king, that ever Sir Launcelot should be against me.† (source)repenteth = feels or expresses regret for having done something wrongstandard 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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He didn't sound repentant, so I ignored him.† (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)repenting = expressing regret for having done something wrong
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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)repents = feels or expresses regret for having done something wrong
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But now you are four years wiser and I am still the mischievous, unrepentant boy you remember.† (source)unrepentant = not feeling regret for having done something wrongstandard 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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Repentances says to keep pure the stock of the Lord by fire, but that's not good enough for the bloody Government now.† (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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