[ adj ] feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds <adj.all>
Repentant \Re*pent"ant\ (-ant), a. [F. repentant.] 1. Penitent; sorry for sin. --Chaucer.
Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. --Millton.
2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. ``Repentant sighs and voluntary pains.'' --Pope.
Repentant \Re*pent"ant\, n. One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.
Like Durenberger before him, a repentant Frank said he had reformed _ mostly as a result of his decision to go public about his sexuality. "Everything I did that was deceptive was done to conceal the fact that I was gay," he said.
But last week, Farrakhan declared Barry a "repentant soul" who is under attack and urged him to run for re-election.
The church is made up of sinners, not saints, and one of the church's sins has been racism. For that we are repentant." There are an estimated 25,000 blacks among the 1.9 million Catholics in the Boston Archdiocese.
Temple Shalom's senior rabbi, Kenneth Roseman, said Wood's Nazi salute proved the sentence was appropriate. "He obviously is not a repentant person," Roseman said.
During an appearance Wednesday night on Fox TV's "A Current Affair," the actress was asked if she were at all repentant for slapping Beverly Hills Police Officer Paul Kramer on June 14.