All 4 Uses of
repent
in
Sense and Sensibility
- —He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not repent.†
Chpt 1 *repent = to express or feel regret for having done wrong
- 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.†
Chpt 24
- 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.†
Chpt 46repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong
- 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.†
Chpt 50
Definition:
to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future