All 11 Uses
repent
in
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene by Greene
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- That was the fallacy of the death-bed repentance — penitence was the fruit of long training and discipline: fear wasn't enough.†
Chpt 2.2repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong
- He said, 'My child, the thief repented.†
Chpt 2.3repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
- I haven't repented.'†
Chpt 2.3
- He said, 'I don't know how to repent.'†
Chpt 2.3repent = to express or feel regret for having done wrong
- 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 2.3unrepentant = not feeling regret for having done something wrongstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrepentant means not and reverses the meaning of repentant. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The words seemed to contain all that he felt himself of repentance, longing and unhappy love.†
Chpt 2.4repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong
- These people went out of the stable clean; he was the only one left who hadn't repented, confessed, and been absolved.†
Chpt 3.1repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
- 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 3.2repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong
- 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 3.2repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
- 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 3.4repentance = 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)