Word Definition

Repent

  1. To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.
  2. Same as Reptant.
  3. To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.
  4. To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally.
  5. Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
  6. To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
  7. To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
  8. To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.