Usually means: Feel remorse, change behavior accordingly.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. repent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. repent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. repent, repent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. repent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. repent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Repent, repent: Wordnik
  7. repent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. repent: Wiktionary
  9. repent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. repent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. repent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Repent, repent: Dictionary.com
  13. repent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. repent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Repent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Repent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. repent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. repent: Rhymezone
  19. repent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. repent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. repent: Free Dictionary
  22. repent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. repent: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repent: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. World English Bible Glossary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Repent: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Repent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
verb:  (theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
verb:  (transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
verb:  (transitive) To be sorry for, to regret.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To cause to have sorrow or regret.
verb:  (obsolete, reflexive) To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To change one's mind.
adjective:  (chiefly botany) Creeping along the ground.

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