Repent: Definition and part of speech

Repent

  1. a. Same as Reptant.
  2. a. Prostrate and rooting; — said of stems.
  3. v. i. To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.
  4. v. i. To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
  5. v. t. To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
  6. v. t. To feel regret or sorrow; — used reflexively.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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