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Webster 1913 Edition


Repentance

Re-pent′ance

(rē̍-pĕnt′ans)
,
Noun.
[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
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Repentance

REPENT'ANCE

, n.
1.
Sorrow for any thing done or said; the pain or grief which a person experiences in consequence of the injury or inconvenience produced by his own conduct.
2.
In theology, the pain, regret or affliction which a person feels on account of his past conduct, because it exposes him to punishment. This sorrow proceeding merely from the fear of punishment, is called legal repentance, as being excited by the terrors of legal penalties, and it may exist without an amendment of life.
3.
Real penitence; sorrow or deep contrition for sin, as an offense and dishonor to God, a violation of his holy law, and the basest ingratitude towards a Being of infinite benevolence. This is called evangelical repentance, and is accompanied and followed by amendment of life.
Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2Cor. 7. Matt. 3.
Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice, from conviction that it has offended God.

Definition 2024


repentance

repentance

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Noun

repentance (countable and uncountable, plural repentances)

  1. The condition of being penitent.
  2. A feeling of regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning.

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Old French

Noun

repentance f (plural repentances)

  1. repentance

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Old French

Noun

repentance f (plural repentances)

  1. repentance

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Old French

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From Latin.

Noun

repentance f (nominative singular repentance)

  1. repentance
    • 12th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:
      [Un] pecheor sanz repentance
      A sinner without repentance

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