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repentance

noun as in feeling bad for past action

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A Family Grieves After the Buffalo ShootingAs a nation, we may consider repair, but repentance means to “turn away.”

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Muslims believe that fasting develops submission to God, empathy with the poor and repentance and gives time for spiritual introspection.

They carried megaphones and signs about repentance and damnation, but once the restaurant’s staff blasted Gaga’s “Born This Way” on the patio speakers the crowd began to disperse.

Only much later, after Anne Sullivan had taught to her to sign using English, had Keller “realized what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow.”

By 2018, he was eager to demonstrate his repentance, while Daines, two years away from his own reelection bid, was eager to help him.

And if the volunteer was formerly a member of the state security forces, he can only join a year after declaring repentance.

The Yom Kippur repentance ritual demands that we reconcile with our fellow human beings before we reconcile with God.

“They felt a certain repentance after what they had done,” the judge wrote.

From mere regrets he was passing now, through dismay, into utter repentance of his promise.

Henoch pleased God, and was translated into paradise, that he may give repentance to the nations.

And remorse without one grain of honest repentance pierced his heart.

I had not prayed openly before, now when I was nearing death it was no time for a hurried repentance and a stammered prayer.

His grandfather had repented, but who was to preach repentance unto these?

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to repentance, such as: contrition, grief, guilt, penitence, regret, and remorse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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