Repentant \Re*pent"ant\, n.
One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a
penitent.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
repentant
adj : feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds [syn: penitent]
[ant: impenitent, impenitent]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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