Regret vs Repent - What's the difference?
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To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
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(more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
* Macaulay
* Clarendon
* Washington Irving
(obsolete) Dislike; aversion.
(label) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
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*:And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
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*:I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent , ye shall all likewise perish.
(label) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
(label) To be sorry for, to regret.
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To cause to have sorrow or regret.
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*:at that time she wolde nat, she seyde, for she was syke and myght nat ryde. "That me repentith ," seyde the kynge.
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*:And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.
(chiefly, botany) Creeping along the ground.
Repent is a synonym of regret.
As verbs the difference between regret and repent
is that regret is to feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead while repent is to feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".As a noun regret
is emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.As an adjective repent is
creeping along the ground.regret
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(wikipedia regret)Verb
(regrett)Usage notes
This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (the (-ing) form), except in set phrases with tell, say, and inform, where the to infinitive is used. SeeDerived terms
* regretterNoun
- What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe ?
- Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
- From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.