repentance

English

Alternative forms

• repentaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

First attested circa 14th century, from Middle English repentance, repentaunce, from Old French repentance. More at repent. By surface analysis, repent +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĭ-pĕnʹtəns, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɛntəns/
• (New Zealand) enPR: ʹrĕp-ən-təns, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛpəntəns/, [ˈɹep.ən.tʰənsʰ]

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: re‧pen‧tance, rep‧en‧tance

Noun

repentance (countable and uncountable, plural repentances)

1. The action of repenting, an instance of it, atonement.
   • 1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz & al., "Dead Man's Eleven", Midsomer Murders:

     Christine Cooper: It's not wrong to sin. Christ came into this world for the sinners.
     DCI Tom Barnaby: To call people to repentance, Mrs Cooper.

2. The condition of being repentant, penitent, a state of feeling regret or remorse for having done wrong.
   • 1678, Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, second period

     God hath denied me repentance. His words gives me no encouragement to believe.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6:

     And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.

Synonyms

• compunction
• contrition
• penitence
• remorse

• See also Thesaurus:remorse

Derived terms

• herb of repentance
• irrepentance
• nonrepentance
• Repentance Creek
• right of repentance
• stool of repentance
• unrepentance

Related terms

• repent
• repentant
• repentantly
• repented
• repenting

Translations

condition of being repentant, penitent, feeling remorse

• Arabic: تَوْبَة f (tawba)
• Armenian: զղջում (hy) (zġǰum), ափսոսանք (hy) (apʻsosankʻ)
• Azerbaijani: tövbə (az)
• Belarusian: ка́янне n (kájannje)
• Bulgarian: разка́яние (bg) n (razkájanie), покая́ние (bg) n (pokajánie)
• Catalan: penediment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 懺悔 / 忏悔 (zh) (chànhuǐ), 悔改 (zh) (huǐgǎi), 悔改 (zh) (huǐgǎi), 悔恨 (zh) (huǐhèn), 悔悟 (zh) (huǐwù), 後悔 / 后悔 (zh) (hòuhuǐ), 懊悔 (zh) (àohuǐ)

• Czech: lítost (cs) f, pokání n
• Danish: anger c
• Dutch: berouw (nl), penitentie (nl) f
• Finnish: tunnontuska (fi), tunnonvaiva, katumus (fi)
• French: repentance (fr) f, repentir (fr) m

  Old French: repentance f

• Galician: arrepentimento (gl) m, arrependimento (gl) m
• German: Reue (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌹𐌳𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰 f (idreiga)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: μετάνοια f (metánoia)

  Modern: μεταμέλεια (el) f (metaméleia), μετάνοια (el) f (metánoia)

• Hindi: पछतावा (hi) m (pachtāvā), पश्चात्ताप (hi) m (paścāttāp), पछतावा (hi) m (pachtāvā)
• Hungarian: bűnbánat (hu), bűntudat (hu), megbánás (hu), lelkifurdalás (hu), lelkiismeret-furdalás (hu)
• Ido: repento (io)
• Irish: aithrí f
• Italian: pentimento (it) m, rimorso (it) m
• Japanese: 懺悔 (ja) (ざんげ, zange); (Buddhism) 懺悔 (ja) (さんげ, sange), 悔悟 (ja) (かいご, kaigo), 後悔 (ja) (こうかい, kōkai)
• Kazakh: өкіну (ökınu)
• Korean: 회개(悔改) (hoegae), 후회(後悔) (ko) (huhoe), 회오(悔悟) (hoe'o)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تۆبە (tobe)

• Macedonian: покајание n (pokajanie)
• Malay: taubat (ms)
• Māori: rīpenetātanga
• Pashto: توبه (ps) f (tobá)
• Persian: پشیمانی (fa) (pašimâni), توبه (fa) (towbe)
• Polish: skrucha (pl) f
• Portuguese: arrependimento (pt) m
• Russian: раска́яние (ru) n (raskájanije), покая́ние (ru) n (pokajánije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: покаја́ње n

  Latin: pokajánje (sh) n

• Slovak: ľútosť f, pokánie n, kajúcnosť f
• Slovene: obžalovanje n, kes (sl) m, kesanje n
• Spanish: arrepentimiento (es) m
• Swahili: kitubio (sw)
• Swedish: ånger (sv) c, ruelse (sv) c
• Tajik: тавба (tavba), пушаймонӣ (pušaymoni)
• Tocharian B: onmiṃ
• Turkish: tövbe (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: اوگنج (evgenc)

• Ukrainian: каяття́ (uk) n (kajattjá), покая́ння n (pokajánnja), ка́яння n (kájannja), розка́яння n (rozkájannja)
• Uzbek: tavba (uz)
• Vietnamese: ăn năn (vi)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} inkeer (nl) m
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} పశ్చాత్తాపం (paścāttāpaṁ)

Anagrams

• penetrance

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French repentance, from Old French repentance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɑ̃.tɑ̃s/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

repentance f (plural repentances)

1. repentance

Related terms

• repentir

Further reading

• “repentance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Middle French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French repentance.

Noun

repentance f (plural repentances)

1. repentance

Related terms

• repentir

Old French

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

repentance oblique singular, f (nominative singular repentance)

1. repentance
   • 12^th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:

     [Un] pecheor sanz repentance

     A sinner without repentance

Descendants

• English: repentance
• French: repentance