repentance

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repentance - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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           Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. --2. Cor.
                                                    vii. 20.
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           Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from
           sin to God.                              --Hammond.
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           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.
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     Syn: Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness;
          compunction. See Contrition.
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repentance - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  repentance
      n 1: remorse for your past conduct [syn: repentance,
           penitence, penance]

repentance - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Repentance
  There are three Greek words used in the New Testament to denote
  repentance. (1.) The verb _metamelomai_ is used of a change of
  mind, such as to produce regret or even remorse on account of
  sin, but not necessarily a change of heart. This word is used
  with reference to the repentance of Judas (Matt. 27:3).
  
    (2.) Metanoeo, meaning to change one's mind and purpose, as
  the result of after knowledge. This verb, with (3) the cognate
  noun _metanoia_, is used of true repentance, a change of mind
  and purpose and life, to which remission of sin is promised.
  
    Evangelical repentance consists of (1) a true sense of one's
  own guilt and sinfulness; (2) an apprehension of God's mercy in
  Christ; (3) an actual hatred of sin (Ps. 119:128; Job 42:5, 6; 2
  Cor. 7:10) and turning from it to God; and (4) a persistent
  endeavour after a holy life in a walking with God in the way of
  his commandments.
  
    The true penitent is conscious of guilt (Ps. 51:4, 9), of
  pollution (51:5, 7, 10), and of helplessness (51:11; 109:21,
  22). Thus he apprehends himself to be just what God has always
  seen him to be and declares him to be. But repentance
  comprehends not only such a sense of sin, but also an
  apprehension of mercy, without which there can be no true
  repentance (Ps. 51:1; 130:4).

repentance - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "repentance":
     Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, abject apology, apology, asceticism,
     attrition, change of heart, cold purgatorial fires, compunction,
     contriteness, contrition, deathbed repentance, fasting,
     flagellation, hair shirt, heartfelt apology, lustration,
     maceration, mea culpa, mortification, penance, penitence,
     penitential act, penitential exercise, penitently, purgation,
     purgatory, reformation, remorse, rue, ruth, sackcloth and ashes,
     saeta, wearing a hairshirt