repentant

4 definitions found

repentant - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Repentant \Re*pent"ant\, n.
     One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a
     penitent.
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  Repentant \Re*pent"ant\ (-ant), a. [F. repentant.]
     1. Penitent; sorry for sin. --Chaucer.
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              Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood.
                                                    --Millton.
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     2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears;
        repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains."
        --Pope.
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repentant - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  repentant
      adj 1: feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds [syn:
             penitent, repentant] [ant: impenitent,
             unremorseful, unrepentant]

repentant - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "repentant":
     abject, apologetic, ascetic, ashamed, atoning, cleansing,
     compensational, compensatory, compunctious, contrite, embarrassed,
     expiatory, humble, humbled, lustral, lustrational, lustrative,
     melted, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, piacular,
     propitiatory, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory,
     recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, regretful,
     remorseful, reparative, reparatory, repenting, restitutional,
     restitutive, restitutory, righting, rueful, satisfactional,
     sheepish, softened, sorry, squaring, touched