repentance
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- repentaunce (archaic)
Etymology[edit]
First attested circa 14th century, from Old French repentance. More at repent.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
repentance (countable and uncountable, plural repentances)
- The condition of being penitent.
- 1678, Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, second period
- God hath denied me repentance. His words gives me no encouragement to believe.
- 1678, Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, second period
- A feeling of regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6:
- And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
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Translations[edit]
condition of being penitent
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feeling of regret or remorse
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French repentance, from Old French repentance.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
repentance f (plural repentances)
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Further reading[edit]
- “repentance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French repentance.
Noun[edit]
repentance f (plural repentances)
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Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin.
Noun[edit]
repentance oblique singular, f (nominative singular repentance)
- repentance
- 12th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:
- [Un] pecheor sanz repentance
- A sinner without repentance
Descendants[edit]
- English: repentance
- French: repentance
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