English Dictionary

repent

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɪˈpɛnt/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 古語 廃用 再帰形

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

日本語の意味

自分の行動や怠慢に対して、痛みや悲しみ、後悔を感じること / 悔いる / 悔い改める / 深い反省の念を抱く

After ignoring his family's calls for months, he began to repent and tried to make amends.

何か月も家族の電話を無視した後、彼は後悔し始め、償おうとした。

意味（1）

(intransitive) 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.

意味（2）

(theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.

... Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

意味（3）

(transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

意味（4）

(transitive) To be sorry for, to regret.

I repent my sins.

意味（5）

(archaic, transitive) To cause to have sorrow or regret.

at that time she wolde nat, she seyde, for she was syke and myght nat ryde. That me repentith, seyde the kynge[…].

意味（6）

(obsolete, reflexive) To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.

But if that I knewe what his name hight, For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]

repents （ present singular third-person ）

repenting （ participle present ）

repented （ participle past ）

repented （ past ）