0 present participle of repent
1 to be very sorry for something bad you have done in the past and wish that you had not done it:
Repenting now and acting later will not work.
Note that in the cases of the two "madmen," one lost his tongue, and the other rescued his life only after repenting.
The "first sort of enthusiasm" groups "those who imagine they have the grace which they have not": individuals claiming redemption without repenting (50).
The conditions included writing an essay repenting of anti-party misdeeds, stating that they supported postal privatization and promising not to oppose the party in the future.
It was the clearest, most legalistic and longest confessional in the long history of repenting sinners.
So did hundreds of thousands of others, without repenting it or resenting it, then or now.
It may have been a case of acting with speed and repenting at leisure.
It is nice to know that some people are repenting, but the facts need to be known.
