Synonyms for repent
ˈri pənt, rɪˈpɛntre·pent

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1. repent

   Synonyms:
   grieve, regret, sorrow, rue, repine, deplore, lament

   Antonyms:
   rejoice, persist

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1. repent, atoneverb

   turn away from sin or do penitence

   Synonyms:
   abye, atone, regret, aby, expiate, rue

2. repent, regret, rueverb

   feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

   Synonyms:
   atone, regret, rue

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1. repentverb

   Synonyms:
   regret, be sorry, be penitent, feel remorse

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1. Everett Piper:

   Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a 'safe place,' but rather a place to learn: to learn that life isn't about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that's wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that's wrong with them,

2. Roberto Saviano:

   Unless he decides to repent, Matteo Messina Denaro, even locked up, will continue to be the king of the Cosa Nostra because no one is ready to sit on the throne that he left only half-empty.

3. Israel Folau:

   Do you think it's coincidence or no? God is speaking to you guys. Australia - you need to repent.

4. Tim Bale:

   There was a political imperative on the government to get an agreement and then to go to the electorate with the claim that they had, to coin a phrase, got Brexit done, i think it possibly was the case in some senses that it was `make the agreement in haste and then repent at leisure. And what were seeing now is the repentance.

5. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images Kara-Murza:

   I’m in jail for my political views; for speaking out against the war in Ukraine, for many years of struggle against Putin’s dictatorship, for facilitating the adoption of personal international sanctions under the Magnitsky Act against human rights violators. Not only do I not repent of any of this, I am proud of it.