All 11 Uses of
repent
in
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene by Greene
- That was the fallacy of the death-bed repentance - penitence was the fruit of long training and discipline: fear wasn't enough.†
Chpt 2.2
- He said, 'My child, the thief repented.†
Chpt 2.3
- I haven't repented.'†
Chpt 2.3
- He said, 'I don't know how to repent.'†
Chpt 2.3
- He needed a confessor to draw his mind slowly down the drab passages which led to grief and repentance.
Chpt 2.3 *repentance = to feel regret for having done wrong and to desire to be a better person in the future
- They had him on the run; he dared not enter a village in case somebody else should pay with his life - perhaps a man who was in mortal sin and unrepentant.†
Chpt 2.3
- The words seemed to contain all that he felt himself of repentance, longing and unhappy love.†
Chpt 2.4
- These people went out of the stable clean; he was the only one left who hadn't repented, confessed, and been absolved.†
Chpt 3.1
- He had heard men talk of the unfairness of a deathbed repentance - as if it was an easy thing to break the habit of a life whether to do good or evil.†
Chpt 3.2
- The priest hurriedly whispered the words of conditional absolution, in case, for one second before it crossed the border, the spirit had repented, but it was more likely that it had gone over still seeking its knife, bent on vicarious violence.†
Chpt 3.2
- The formal phrase meant nothing at all: it was like a sentence in a newspaper: you couldn't feel repentance over a thing like that.†
Chpt 3.4
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