Repentance

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Repentance \Re*pent"ance\ (r[-e]*p[e^]nt"ans), n. [F.
     repentance.]
     The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow
     for what one has done or omitted to do; especially,
     contrition for sin. --Chaucer.
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           Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. --2. Cor.
                                                    vii. 20.
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           Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from
           sin to God.                              --Hammond.
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           Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from
           the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow, fear,
           and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of
           repentance; yet they are too closely connected with it
           to be easily separated.                  --Rambler.
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     Syn: Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness;
          compunction. See {Contrition}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  repentance
       n : remorse for your past conduct [syn: {penitence}, {penance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "repentance":
     Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, abject apology, apology, asceticism,
     attrition, change of heart, cold purgatorial fires, compunction,
     contriteness, contrition, deathbed repentance, fasting,
     flagellation, hair shirt, heartfelt apology, lustration,
     maceration, mea culpa, mortification, penance, penitence,
     penitential act, penitential exercise, penitently, purgation,
     purgatory, reformation, remorse, rue, ruth, sackcloth and ashes,
     saeta, wearing a hairshirt
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Repentance
     There are three Greek words used in the New Testament to denote
     repentance. (1.) The verb _metamelomai_ is used of a change of
     mind, such as to produce regret or even remorse on account of
     sin, but not necessarily a change of heart. This word is used
     with reference to the repentance of Judas (Matt. 27:3).
     
       (2.) Metanoeo, meaning to change one's mind and purpose, as
     the result of after knowledge. This verb, with (3) the cognate
     noun _metanoia_, is used of true repentance, a change of mind
     and purpose and life, to which remission of sin is promised.
     
       Evangelical repentance consists of (1) a true sense of one's
     own guilt and sinfulness; (2) an apprehension of God's mercy in
     Christ; (3) an actual hatred of sin (Ps. 119:128; Job 42:5, 6; 2
     Cor. 7:10) and turning from it to God; and (4) a persistent
     endeavour after a holy life in a walking with God in the way of
     his commandments.
     
       The true penitent is conscious of guilt (Ps. 51:4, 9), of
     pollution (51:5, 7, 10), and of helplessness (51:11; 109:21,
     22). Thus he apprehends himself to be just what God has always
     seen him to be and declares him to be. But repentance
     comprehends not only such a sense of sin, but also an
     apprehension of mercy, without which there can be no true
     repentance (Ps. 51:1; 130:4).
     

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  REPENTANCE, n.  The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment.  It
  is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not
  inconsistent with continuity of sin.
  
      Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell,
      You will repent and join the Church, Parnell?
      How needless! -- Nick will keep you off the coals
      And add you to the woes of other souls.
                                                           Jomater Abemy