[ noun ] remorse for your past conduct <noun.feeling>
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.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. --2. Cor. vii. 20.
Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God. --Hammond.
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.
Syn: Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness; compunction. See {Contrition}.
Communist authorities allowed Fang and his wife to leave the country for medical reasons after showing "signs of repentance," according to the official Chinese news service Xinhua.
Barring repentance, he is sentenced to death.
Rust told the court he felt "remorse and deep repentance" and never intended to endanger or insult anyone.
Rosh Hashana marks the beginning of a period of self-examination and repentance that ends with the fast day of Yom Kippur that begins at sunset Sept. 28.
"I spend time here looking back on the past with regrets and repentance and I wish I could have healed the scars of the Kwangju incident while in office," he said in his message from the temple on the west coast.
Later, IRNA said that Rushdie's apology, "though far too short of a repentance, is generally seen as sufficient enough to warrant his pardon by the masses in Iran and elsewhere in the world." The disclaimer came two hours later.
Rural exile is a traditional form of repentance for disgraced Korean officials.
The "lawbreakers" were released after "they pleaded guilty and showed repentance," the official Xinhua News Agency quoted a Public Security Ministry official as saying.