Another word for repent | Synonyms for repent

Another word for repent

repent Synonyms

repent

v.

be sorry, be penitent, lament, atone; see apologize, regret 1.

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Another word for repent

verb

To feel or express sorrow for:

deplore, regret, rue. See regret

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To live only so as not to do evil and not to have to repent is not enough.
First, "You must repent and feel true faith in God's mercy."
Even Satan must repent and live.'
1-4.) In those dayes Ihon the baptyser cam and preached in the wyldernes of Iury, saynge, Repent, the kyngedom of heven ys at hond.
It is only fair to notice that while the latter, according to Defoe's more usual practice, is allowed to repent and end happily, Roxana is brought to complete misery; Defoe's morality, therefore, required more repulsiveness in one case than in the other.

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