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repent

[ri-pent] / rɪˈpɛnt /


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Trying to Repent: You can — and do — feel genuine remorse for your behavior.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2021

He was embodying the spirit of the prophet behind his surname, John the Baptist: Repent of big chains, and prepare the way for small businesses to survive.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2020

In a video posted by the People’s Daily, an officer with a megaphone shouted in Cantonese, which is spoken in Hong Kong, “Stop the violence! Repent and be saved!”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 25, 2019

John Marquand's brief, tender war-story, Repent in Haste.

From Time Magazine Archive

By growth in Crimes too harden'd to Repent.

From Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740) by Anonymous




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