All 7 Uses of
repent
in
Dante's Inferno
- Man may lay violent hands upon himself and on his goods; and, therefore, in the second round must needs repent without avail whoever deprives himself of your world, gambles away and squanders his property, and laments there where he ought to be joyous.†
Canto 10-12
- Lethe thou shalt see, but outside of this ditch, there where souls go to lave themselves when sin repented of is taken away.†
Canto 13-15 *
- See Guido Bonatti,[3] see Asdente,[4] who now would wish he had attended to his leather and his thread, but late repents.†
Canto 19-21
- When I saw me arrived at that part of my age where every one ought to strike the sails and to coil up the ropes, what erst was pleasing to me then gave me pain, and I yielded me repentant and confessed.†
Canto 25-27
- Francis[5] came for me afterwards, when I was dead, but one of the Black Cherubim said to him, 'Bear him not away; do me not wrong; he must come down among my drudges because he gave the fraudulent counsel, since which till now I have been at his hair; for he who repents not cannot be absolved, nor can repentance and will exist together, because of the contradiction that allows it not.'†
Canto 25-27
- Francis[5] came for me afterwards, when I was dead, but one of the Black Cherubim said to him, 'Bear him not away; do me not wrong; he must come down among my drudges because he gave the fraudulent counsel, since which till now I have been at his hair; for he who repents not cannot be absolved, nor can repentance and will exist together, because of the contradiction that allows it not.'†
Canto 25-27
- Nature, surely, when she left the art of such like creatures, did exceeding well in taking such executers from Mars; and if she repent not of elephants and of whales, he who looks subtly holds her more just and more discreet therefor;[1] for where the faculty of the mind is added to evil will and to power, the human race can make no defense against it.†
Canto 31-34
Definition:
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(repent) to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future