Both Uses
repent
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
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- But if you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl—you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow?†
p. 50.6 *repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong
- If you asked me for another penny, and made it an open question, I'd repent of being so liberal and knock off half-a-crown.†
p. 102.6repent = to express or feel regret for having done wrong
Definitions:
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(1)
(repent) to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)