All 10 Uses
repent
in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- "If I do, I repent of it, I hope," said Miss Ophelia, rattling her needles with energy.†
Chpt 2.19repent = to express or feel regret for having done wrong
- "So do I," said St. Clare, peeling his orange; "I'm repenting of it all the time."†
Chpt 2.19 *repenting = expressing regret for having done something wrong
- Didn't you ever keep on doing wrong, after you'd repented, my good cousin?†
Chpt 2.19repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
- "I should say," said Miss Ophelia, "that he ought to repent, and begin now."†
Chpt 2.28repent = to express or feel regret for having done wrong
- Do the worst you can, my troubles'll be over soon; but, if ye don't repent, yours won't never end!†
Chpt 2.40
- that soul, past repentance, past prayer, past hope, in whom the fire that never shall be quenched is already burning!†
Chpt 2.40repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong
- Tears had fallen on that honest, insensible face,—tears of late repentance in the poor, ignorant heathen, whom his dying love and patience had awakened to repentance, and bitter prayers, breathed over him to a late-found Saviour, of whom they scarce knew more than the name, but whom the yearning ignorant heart of man never implores in vain.†
Chpt 2.41
- Tears had fallen on that honest, insensible face,—tears of late repentance in the poor, ignorant heathen, whom his dying love and patience had awakened to repentance, and bitter prayers, breathed over him to a late-found Saviour, of whom they scarce knew more than the name, but whom the yearning ignorant heart of man never implores in vain.†
Chpt 2.41
- Oh, if he only could repent, the Lord would forgive him now; but I'm 'feared he never will!†
Chpt 2.41repent = to express or feel regret for having done wrong
- Not by combining together, to protect injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved,—but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God!†
Chpt 2.45repentance = to feel or express 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)