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Repent vs Unrepented - What's the difference?

repent | unrepented |

As adjectives the difference between repent and unrepented

is that repent is creeping along the ground while unrepented is not repented of.

As a verb 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".

repent

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) repentir, from (re-) + a late derivative of (etyl) , alteration of (etyl) paenitere.

Verb

(en verb)
  • (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".
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • *, Bk.VII:
  • *: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.
    • Synonyms
    * (l) * (l)
    Derived terms
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    Related terms
    * penance * repentance * repentant * penitence * penitent * unrepentable

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

  • (chiefly, botany) Creeping along the ground.
    • Synonyms
    * reptant

    References

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    unrepented

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not repented of.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1846, author=Leigh Hunt, title=Stories from the Italian Poets= With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=[34] He was going to heaven, he said, by the help of St. Francis, who came on purpose to fetch him, when a black angel met them, and demanded his absolved, indeed, but unrepented victim. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1902, author=John Lord, title=Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=To describe a wanderer on the face of the earth, driven hither and thither by pursuing vengeance as the first recorded murderer, the poet was obliged by all the rules of art to put such sentiments into his mouth as accorded with his unrepented crime and his dreadful agonies of mind and soul. }}