Definition of repent

"repent" in the verb sense

1. repent, atone

turn away from sin or do penitence

2. repent, regret, rue

feel remorse for feel sorry for be contrite about

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Quotations for repent

If you trust before you try,
You may repent before you die. [ Proverb ]

Repent of a good action if you can. [ Proverb ]

Do as little as you can to repent of. [ Proverb ]

Marry in haste, and repent at leisure,
It is good to marry late or never. [ Proverb ]

Married in haste, we repent at leisure. [ Congreve ]

Who after his transgression doth repent
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. [ Herrick ]

We seldom repent having eaten too little.

Not to repent of a fault is to justify it. [ Proverb ]

Age and wedlock we all desire, and repent of. [ Proverb ]

You will never repent of being patient and sober. [ Proverb ]

Whoso is apt to believe, shall frequently repent it. [ Proverb ]

It is difficult to repent of what gives us pleasure. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

How many things hath he to repent of that lives long! [ Proverb ]

He that protects an ill man may live to repent of it. [ Proverb ]

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another. [ F. W. Robertson ]

A wicked book is the wickeder, because it cannot repent. [ Proverb ]

He who decides hastily, will soon repent of his decision. [ Publius Syrus ]

We are ever young enough to sin, never old enough to repent. [ Proverb ]

He that sins that he may repent, surfeits that he may take a vomit. [ Proverb ]

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent. [ Richardson ]

Well, if my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. [ William Shakespeare ]

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. [ Voltaire ]

If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if be repent, forgive him. [ Bible ]

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Try what repentance can; what can it not? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent? [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish. [ Dr. Johnson ]

What is past is past. There is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

It is necessary to repent for years in order to efface a fault in the eyes of men; a single tear suffices with God. [ Chateaubriand ]

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness. [ Hare ]

We rarely repent of having spoken too little, very often of having spoken too much: a maxim this which is old and trivial, and which every one knows, but which every one does not practise. [ La Bruyère ]

Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is an unjust person. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigality drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind. [ Quarles ]

The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]

repent in Scrabble®

The word repent is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters repent:

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repent in Words With Friends™

The word repent is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters repent:

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Words within the letters of repent

2 letter words in repent (3 words)

3 letter words in repent (6 words)

4 letter words in repent (8 words)

5 letter words in repent (6 words)

6 letter words in repent (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence repent

Words with repent in them (5 words)

Words that end with repent (1 word)

Word Growth involving repent

Shorter words in repent

en pen pent

pe pen pent

en pen repen

pe pen repen

re repen

Longer words containing repent

repentable

repentance repentances

repentant repentantly unrepentantly

repentant repentantness

repentant repentants

repentant unrepentant unrepentantly

repented

repenter repenters

repenting repentingly unrepentingly

repenting unrepenting unrepentingly

repents