0 the fact of showing that you are very sorry for something bad you have done in the past, and wish that you had not done it:
He preached repentance and forgiveness.
If there is no true repentance, criminals will commit the same crimes again.
Converts preached publicly, orally, about private wrongs, calling impotent, beery men to repentance.
This condition would depend on the free response, of repentance, of wrongdoers.
Is it possible to generate these two effects even in the absence of repentance or the victim's opportunity to observe the perpetrator's change of life?
This paper identifies two others: ' justifications', for behaviour that associated with weight gain, and ' repentance ', for behaviour that reaffirmed a commitment to losing weight.
But this repentance itself requires that we do what we can to deal with the wrongs we do to other human beings.