REPENTANCE


Meaning of REPENTANCE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After the visions she'd become a shepherdess of souls, leading them to Our Lady and to repentance .

An old man then reproaches Faustus for selling his soul and counsels repentance which Faustus inclines towards.

Hence their punishment was to be achieved through persuading them to repentance and guilt.

I myself have no feelings of repentance .

Or was there something else she had wanted, some sign of repentance maybe?

Taylor always strongly opposed the Roman Catholic insistence on the efficacy of deathbed repentance .

The man who made a best seller out of a defamatory rant now wants to make a best seller out of repentance .

The practice of meditation and contemplation is life-long, reflecting this daily process of repentance and change at heart.

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