repentant
pronunciation
How to pronounce repentant in British English:
UK [rɪˈpentənt]
How to pronounce repentant in American English:
US [rɪˈpɛntənt]
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- Adjective:
- feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
Word Origin
- repentant (adj.)
- early 13c., from Old French repentant "penitent" (12c.), present participle of repentir (see repent).
Example
- 1. He was openly repentant about his lack of reading skills .
- 2. Repentant militants each got $ 393 a month in cash plus food allowances during rehabilitation .
- 3. The prince himself narrowly survived a particularly messy assassination attempt , when al-qaeda tricked him into meeting a supposedly repentant operative who had concealed a suicide-bomb in his rectum .