All 12 Uses of
repent
in
The Scarlet Letter
- I know not whether these ancestors of mine bethought themselves to repent, and ask pardon of Heaven for their cruelties; or whether they are now groaning under the heavy consequences of them in another state of being.†
p. 13.5repent = to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future
- It is a pious consolation to me that, through my interference, a sufficient space was allowed them for repentance of the evil and corrupt practices into which, as a matter of course, every Custom-House officer must be supposed to fall.†
p. 15.8repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong and to desire to be a better person in the future
- It behoves you; therefore, to exhort her to repentance and to confession, as a proof and consequence thereof.†
p. 47.9 *
- That, and thy repentance, may avail to take the scarlet letter off thy breast.†
p. 49.2
- To make himself the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear, the remorse, the agony, the ineffectual repentance, the backward rush of sinful thoughts, expelled in vain!†
p. 94.3
- This feeble and most sensitive of spirits could do neither, yet continually did one thing or another, which intertwined, in the same inextricable knot, the agony of heaven-defying guilt and vain repentance.†
p. 99.9
- She deemed it her crime most to be repented of, that she had ever endured and reciprocated the lukewarm grasp of his hand, and had suffered the smile of her lips and eyes to mingle and melt into his own.†
p. 118.9repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
- Had seven long years, under the torture of the scarlet letter, inflicted so much of misery and wrought out no repentance?†
p. 119.3repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong and to desire to be a better person in the future
- You have deeply and sorely repented.†
p. 129.8repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
- that will leave thee powerless even to repent?†
p. 134.2repent = to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future
- A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid.†
p. 138.5repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
- Partly supported by Hester Prynne, and holding one hand of little Pearl's, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale turned to the dignified and venerable rulers; to the holy ministers, who were his brethren; to the people, whose great heart was thoroughly appalled yet overflowing with tearful sympathy, as knowing that some deep life-matter—which, if full of sin, was full of anguish and repentance likewise—was now to be laid open to them.†
p. 169.1repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong and to desire to be a better person in the future