Definitions for: Repentance

[n] remorse for your past conduct

Webster (1913) Definition: Re*pent"ance (r[-e]*p[e^]nt"ans), 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.

Synonyms: penance, penitence

See Also: compunction, remorse, self-reproach

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