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: --
Figures show that there is more repenting after teenage marriages than after marriages later in life.
I suppose that one should rejoice at a sinner repenting.
Still, the sinner or the sinners opposite seem to be repenting, and that is something.
It may mean his marrying in haste and repenting at leisure.
I cannot agree to the speedy process because, frankly, it is leading the way to repenting at leisure.
There is more joy "in heaven over one sinner that repenteth" and so forth, and with 300 repenting the joy is considerable.
I hope that it will not be a case of legislating in haste and repenting at leisure.
It is nice to know that some people are repenting, but the facts need to be known.
