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   Repentance , n. [F. repentance.] The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.
   2. Cor. vii. 20.
   
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   Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.
   Hammond.
   
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   Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of repentance; yet they are too closely connected with it to be easily separated.
   Rambler.
   
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   Syn. -- Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness; compunction. See Contrition.
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