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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
- — He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not repent.Chapter 1 (63% in)
- Indeed, I can easily believe that it was a very great relief to you, to acknowledge your situation to me, and be assured that you shall never have reason to repent it.Chapter 24 (13% in)
- She managed the recital, as she hoped, with address; prepared her anxious listener with caution; related simply and honestly the chief points on which Willoughby grounded his apology; did justice to his repentance, and softened only his protestations of present regard.Chapter 46 (92% in)
- That his repentance of misconduct, which thus brought its own punishment, was sincere, need not be doubted;—nor that he long thought of Colonel Brandon with envy, and of Marianne with regret.Chapter 50 (89% in)
There are no more uses of "repentance" in Sense and Sensibility.
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