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repentance|rɪˈpɛntəns|
Also 4–6 -aunce, (5 -aunse), 4 -anse, (5 -ans, -once), 6 -ence.
[a. F. repentance (12th c.): see repent v. and -ance, and cf. OSp. repentencia (13th c.).]
1. The act of repenting or the state of being penitent; sorrow, regret, or contrition for past action or conduct; an instance of this.
13..Cursor M. 4958 (Gött.), Ȝour repentanse es comen ouer late. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 5229 Wyþ sorow of herte and repentaunce Þou mayst pay God wyþ lytyl penaunce. c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1259 (1308) And at o word with-outen repentaunce Wel-come my knyght. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 9 She steryd the pepyl ever to repentaunce. 1509Fisher Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 300 Wepynges & teares somtyme of deuocion somtyme of repentaunce. a1591H. Smith Serm. (1637) 220 Repentance is never too late, but it is a true saying, repentance is never too soon. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. i, In time [they] should him fear, Lest after they buy repentance too dear. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. iii. §26 What patience could be content to..accept of repentances which must have after penitences, His goodness can only tell us. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 65 The Romish doctors reckon three stages in the passage from vice to virtue, attrition, contrition, and repentance. 1813Shelley Q. Mab v. 246 Bitterness of soul, Pining regrets, and vain repentances. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet I. 159 The morning is the time for repentance.
b. personified.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 43 Þenne Ron Repentaunce and Rehersed þis teeme. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxii. 133 Repentence ay with cheikis wait, No..pennence did eschew. 1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 81 Then comes repentance, and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace. 1798Wordsw. Peter Bell Prol. xxx, Repentance is a tender Sprite.
2. stool of († or for) repentance, repentance-stool, a stool formerly placed in a conspicuous position in Scottish churches for the use of offenders (esp. against chastity) making public repentance; also called cutty-stool. So repentance-gown. (Cf. repenting vbl. n. b.)
1647in Jrnl. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland (1901) 271 To Adam McNeilis for dressing ye stoole of repentance, 02s. 5d. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xiii. §48 To stand publickly in the Stool of Repentance, acknowledging their former transgressions. 1690Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 120 They are setting up the stool of repentance in their churches as formerly, where people guilty of incontinency are to doe pennance. c1765Collection Scot. Poems 68 Tague..told him, he behoved to do penance on the repentance stool. 1899Andrews Church Life 112 The Synods specially enjoined on all parishes the procuring of a repentance-gown.
fig.a1704T. Brown Walk round London Wks. 1709 III. 34 When the Fumes of Melancholy or Wine set them on the Stool of Repentance. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. ii. iii, He has been just half a year on the stool of repentance! 1884Christian World 2 Oct. 737/1 The Times..seats itself as it were in shame on the stool of repentance.
3. Herb of repentance, the plant rue. (Cf. the etym. note to herb-grace.)
1858–9Phytologist III. 207 This [the Herb-of-Grace] is not a native, but it is well known at the Old Bailey as the Herb-of-Repentance. |