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Meanings of repentant in English
Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds.
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Examples for "penitent"
Examples for "penitent"
1
The most penitent of all was the deviser of the original idea.
2
In his prayers the penitent in his confession says to this day:
3
Page 168:-Oneof the confessors had a young penitent in the convent.
4
The penitent soul is absorbed in the thought of its own evil.
5
The penitent closes the prayer by another and still more earnest appeal:
Usage of repentant in English
1
Seventy-two years a king; thirty years a libertine; twenty years a repentant.
2
I was and remain the wanderer, the undying, the repentant, the unforgiven.
3
This disillusionment found its early expression in the lamentations of repentant assimilators.
4
In an instant he had caught her in his arms, passionately repentant.
5
The service had now reached the stage of prayer for repentant sinners.
6
Olive, sorely repentant, tried to soothe the natural jealousy she had aroused.
7
Domesticated and repentant, he has renounced the devil and all her works.
8
Jesus hears the cry of a repentant sinner, and she was confident.
9
She went into goggles as repentant Magdalens go into the Catholic church.
10
Then his father was very repentant about having killed the other animals.
11
Achieving that much was a victory in itself for the repentant guards.
12
This seemed an indication of mercy, at least to the repentant criminals.
13
To ask of him to play the repentant sinner, is simply ridiculous.
14
Bearslayer realizes that she is truly repentant and wants to help her.
15
Mr. Strong was so genuinely repentant that I could not refuse him.
16
Crowding, weeping, rushing to the penitent-form came convicted sinners and repentant backsliders.
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Repentant across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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