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Definition of Repents
1. repent [v] - See also: repent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repents
Literary usage of Repents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"If he repents— which is likely enough, it is not of having meant to kill me, ...
He repents, sir, of having left it in my power to disinherit him. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Personal Property by James Schouler (1896)
"Revocation by Donor who repents of the Giit,— Third. Revocation by the donor's
own act, or where, as the civilians would say, he repents of the gift, ..."
3. Dramatic Opinions and Essays, with an Apology: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"... THEATRE repents A Man's Love: a play in three acts, from the Dutch of JC de
Vos; and Salve, a Dramatic Fragment, in one act, by Mrs. Oscar Beringer. ..."
4. Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order: And Divided Into Five Parts, which by Benedictus de Spinoza (1883)
"... and is moved by the misery or tears of another, often does something of which
he afterward repents, both because from an affect we do nothing which we ..."
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