[ UK /ɹɪpˈɛntəns/ ]
[ US /ɹɪˈpɛntəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. remorse for your past conduct
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How To Use repentance In A Sentence

  • I was addressing the issue of whether his deathbed activities that I read about could meaningfully be described as signs of repentance for his proabortion rights stance. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
  • But since he or his representative maintained for years that his proabortion rights stance is consistent with being a Catholic in good standing, with receiving Holy Communion, leading family prayers, and being visited by priest friends, I can't for the life of me figure out why I should see his doing such things on his deathbed as "signs of repentance" for the manifest grave sin of his proabortion rights stance. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
  • But the next minute, the little creature whimpering, she bent down in impatient repentance and kissed it, whimpering too. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
  • Hence their punishment was to be achieved through persuading them to repentance and guilt.
  • It looks more like reluctant tactics than true repentance. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the basis of our repentance and profession of faith in Christ, God regards us as acceptable and pleasing in His sight.
  • They showed no repentance during their trial.
  • The literary masterpiece Barrow draws on to illumine the path of conversion and repentance is Dante's Purgatorio.
  • We remember that John the Baptist preached a baptism of repentance for the remission of sin.
  • But he's no ordinary televangelist, preaching hell and damnation, repentance and Judgement Day.
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