repentance (n.)
- apology
- asceticism
- attrition
- compunction
- contriteness
- contrition
- fasting
- flagellation
- lustration
- maceration
- mortification
- penance
- penitence
- purgation
- purgatory
- reformation
- remorse
- rue
- ruth
Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs. . . . A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance.
