rəˈpent/

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re·pent

rəˈpent/

verb

verb: repent; 3rd person present: repents; past tense: repented; past participle: repented; gerund or present participle: repenting

  1. feel or express sincere regret or remorse about one's wrongdoing or sin.

    "the priest urged his listeners to repent"

    synonyms:

    feel remorse, regret, be sorry, rue, reproach oneself, be ashamed, feel contrite; More
    be penitent, be remorseful, be repentant

    "the senator claims to have repented"

    • view or think of (an action or omission) with deep regret or remorse.

      "Marian came to repent her hasty judgment"

    • archaic

      feel regret or penitence about.

      "I repent me of all I did"
      Say Sorry:
      feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble. regrettable or deplorable; unfortunate; tragic: a sorry situation; to come to a sorry end.
      Confess your sins
       Confess, Confession The biblical concepts expressed by the words "confess" and "confession" have in common the idea of an acknowledgment of something. This is the root idea of the two verbs that lie behind the great majority of occurrences of the words "confess" and "confession" in the English Bible: Hebrew yadaa [h'd"y] (in the hiphil root) and Greek homologeo [oJmologevw].  

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