repent

About 1.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".

   Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

2. verb To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
3. verb To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
4. verb To be sorry for, to regret.

   I repent my sins.

5. verb To cause to have sorrow or regret.
6. verb To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.
7. verb To change one's mind.
8. adjective Creeping along the ground.

Similar words

regret atone rue turn ye ance lament apologize bemoan recant

Often followed by

of and it in for the ye his that

Word family

repented repenter repenters repenting repents