1. To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
I do repent it from my very soul.
Shak.
2. To feel regret or sorrow; — used reflexively.
My father has repented him ere now.
Dryden. 3. To cause to have sorrow or regret; — used impersonally. [Archaic] "And it repented the Lord that he
had made man on the earth." Gen. vi. 6.
Repentance
(Re*pent"ance) n. [F. repentance.] The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow
for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. Chaucer.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.
2. Cor. vii. 20.
Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.
Hammond.
Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow,
fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of repentance; yet they are too closely connected
with it to be easily separated.
Rambler. Syn. — Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness; compunction. See Contrition.
Repentant
(Re*pent"ant) a. [F. repentant.]
1. Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer.
Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood.
Millton. 2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and
voluntary pains." Pope.
Repentant
(Re*pent"ant), n. One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.
Repentantly
(Re*pent"ant*ly), adv. In a repentant manner.
Repenter
(Re*pent"er) n. One who repents.
Repentingly
(Re*pent"ing*ly), adv. With repentance; penitently.
Repentless
(Re*pent"less), a. Unrepentant. [R.]
Repeople
(Re*peo"ple) v. t. [Pref. re- + people: cf. F. repeupler.] To people anew.
Reperception
(Re`per*cep"tion) n. The act of perceiving again; a repeated perception of the same object.
No external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is
fine.
Keats. Repercuss
(Re`per*cuss") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repercussed (-k?st");p. pr. & vb. n. Repercussing.] [L.
repercusus, p. p. of repercutere to drive back; pref. re- re- + percutere. See Percussion.] To drive
or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate.
Perceiving all the subjacent country, . . . to repercuss such a light as I could hardly look against.
Evelyn. Repercussion
(Re`per*cus"sion) n. [L. repercussio: cf. F. répercussion.]
