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repentant, a. and n.|rɪˈpɛntənt|
Also 5 repend-.
[a. F. repentant (12th c.), pres. ppl. of repentir: see repent v. and -ant.]
A. adj.
1. Experiencing repentance; sorrowful for past sins, penitent.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 174/2377 Heo weren echone repentaunt; ne miȝten none men more. c1315Shoreham i. 752 Ryȝt repentaunt and ryȝt deuout Take hys deaþ in þy meende. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 149 He..Moost repentaunt for-sook the world. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII c. 57 Preamble, Your seid Suppliaunt is as sorrowfull and repentant as any creature may be. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 525/2 As those repentaunte sinners bee a parte of the churche predestynate. 1635–56Cowley Davideis iv. 771 Kind Heav'n..does long since relent, And with repentant Saul it self repent. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 1 Thus they in lowliest plight repentant stood. 1823Scott Peveril xlix, Charles entered, leaning on the shoulder of his repentant peer. 1876Farrar Marlb. Serm. xxv. 249 He will cleanse from your repentant souls this daily assoilment.
absol. as pl.14..in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 97 Sothfast kyng whos regne is inmutabull To repentaunt by rygour not vengeable. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 264 It is my guyse, Alle repentaunt to bryng hem to my blys.
b. Const. of, for.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5917 Elfred..Of ire trespas biuore ire deþ repentant was. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 363 No man þat dooþ dedelly synne schal be i-saued, but he be verrey repentaunt at his lifes ende of al his mysdedes. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 65 Men awe to praye..and be rependant of hir synnes. 1556Olde Antichrist 175 b, Them that are hartily repentaunt for their synnes. 1601Holland Pliny II. 550 Penitent also and repentant, for that which he had done in his furious madnesse. 1817Keats Woman! when I, etc. 4 The downcast eye, repentant of the pain That its mild light creates to heal again.
2. Expressing or indicating repentance.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 216 After I haue solemnly interr'd..this Noble King, And wet his Graue with my Repentant Teares. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 87 Some of them have not spared to commit repentant error, to please the Pope. 1717Pope Eloisa 17 Relentless walls! whose darksome round contains Repentant sighs.
B. n. One who repents, a penitent. ? Obs.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 554/1 Though he haue made a true faithfull promise of pardone, to al true repentauntes and penitentes. 1624R. Skynner in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 350 Let not a Man that is a true Repentant think [etc.]. 1657Reeve God's Plea 21 Dumb gestures are fitter for repentants, then high phrased bablings. a1814Gonzanga iv. vi. in New Brit. Theatre III. 142 This last design of thy vengeful cruelty has made a sincere repentant of me.
transf.1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 224, I following the Greeke originall [metanoia] choose to call him the penitent or repentant. |
