"repentant" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɹəˈpɛtənt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-repentant.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more repentant [comparative], most repentant [superlative]
Etymology: From Old French repentant, present participle of repentir. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*peh₁-}}, {{uder|en|fro|repentant}} Old French repentant, {{m|fro|repentir}} repentir Head templates: {{en-adj}} repentant (comparative more repentant, superlative most repentant)
  1. Feeling or showing sorrow for wrongdoing. Categories (topical): Emotions Related terms: repent [verb], repentance [noun] Translations (feeling sorrow for wrongdoing): μετάμελος (metámelos) (Ancient Greek), 后悔的 (hòuhuǐde) (Chinese Mandarin), kajícný (Czech), angrende (Danish), katuva (Finnish), katuvainen (Finnish), repentant (French), repenti (French), reumütig (German), μετανιωμένος (metanioménos) [masculine] (Greek), bűnbánó (Hungarian), repentanta (Ido), skruszony (Polish), arrependido (Portuguese), arrepentido (Spanish), ångerfull (Swedish), botfärdig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-repentant-en-adj-tiWieH66 Disambiguation of Emotions: 55 45

Noun

IPA: /ɹəˈpɛtənt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-repentant.wav [Southern-England] Forms: repentants [plural]
Etymology: From Old French repentant, present participle of repentir. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*peh₁-}}, {{uder|en|fro|repentant}} Old French repentant, {{m|fro|repentir}} repentir Head templates: {{en-noun}} repentant (plural repentants)
  1. One who repents; a penitent. Categories (topical): Emotions
    Sense id: en-repentant-en-noun-bwkWlkBj Disambiguation of Emotions: 55 45 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 90 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 87 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 16 84

Inflected forms

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