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Penitent vs Repentent - What's the difference?

penitent | repentent |

As an adjective penitent

is penitent.

As a noun penitent

is penitent.

As a verb repentent is

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penitent

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic) * (qualifier)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.
  • * 1838 , , (The Anatomy of Melancholy) , B. Blake, p.730,
    • If thou be penitent and grieved, or desirous to be so, these heinous sins shall not be laid to thy charge.
  • * Milton
    • Be penitent , and for thy fault contrite.
  • Doing penance.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his or her transgressions.
  • One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
  • * 1837 , William Russell, The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Longman, Rees, & Co., page 20,
    • Wamba, who defeated the Saracens in an attempt upon Spain, was deprived of the crown, because he had been clothed in the habit of a penitent , while labouring under the influence of poison, administered by the ambitious Erviga!
  • One under the direction of a confessor.

    • Synonyms

    * penaunt

    Related terms

    * pen * penance * penitence * penitentiary * repent * repentance * repentant

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    repentent

    Not English

    Repentent has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'repentent':

    repentant, reappoint, reefpoint, refundment, repentest, reboundest