From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrepentancere‧pen‧tance /rɪˈpentəns/ noun [uncountable] SORRY/APOLOGIZEwhen you are sorry for something wrong that you have done
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repentance• An old man then reproaches Faustus for selling his soul and counsels repentance which Faustus inclines towards.• Taylor always strongly opposed the Roman Catholic insistence on the efficacy of deathbed repentance.• I myself have no feelings of 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.• Or was there something else she had wanted, some sign of repentance maybe?• After the visions she'd become a shepherdess of souls, leading them to Our Lady and to repentance.• Hence their punishment was to be achieved through persuading them to repentance and guilt. 