About The Word Repentance
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Repentance
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What's The Definition Of Repentance?
[n] remorse for your past conduct
Synonyms | Synonyms for Repentance: penance | penitence Related Terms | Find terms related to Repentance: See Also | compunction | remorse | self-reproach Repentance In Webster's Dictionary \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}.
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