| 单词 | repentant |
| 释义 | repentant (once / 522 pages) adj When people are repentant, they’re feeling or showing remorse. They're sorry and ashamed of something. If you take the last cookie and then lie about it, you’re probably going to feel repentant later, if you have a heart. If you’re feeling repentant, you’re ready to apologize because you know you did something wrong. It could be that you kissed your best friend’s sweetheart, or you broke some kind of religious rule that’s making you feel guilty. Either way, the best way to get over feeling repentant is to repent, or acknowledge what you’ve done and promise not to do it any more. WORD FAMILYrepentant: repentance, repentantly, unrepentant+/repent: repentant, repented, repenting, repents/repentance: repentances/unrepentant: unrepentantly USAGE EXAMPLESBut campaigners said if they were truly repentant, they would reveal where some of their victims were buried. BBC(Dec 23, 2016) “There is no sin that God’s mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart,” he wrote. New York Times(Nov 21, 2016) Russia declared a brief eight-hour “humanitarian pause” in its airstrikes on Tuesday, ostensibly to allow civilians and repentant rebel fighters to leave the city. The Guardian(Oct 18, 2016) adj feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds Syn|Ant penitent ashamed feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse bad, regretful, sorryfeeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthfulfeeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses penitential, penitentiaryshowing or constituting penance impenitent, unremorseful, unrepentant not penitent or remorseful unashamedused of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame unregenerate, unregeneratednot reformed morally or spiritually |
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