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repentant

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re·pen·tant  (r-pntnt)
adj.
Characterized by or demonstrating repentance; penitent.
re·pentant·ly adv.
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Adj.1.repentant - feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
penitent
ashamed - feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse; "are you ashamed for having lied?"; "felt ashamed of my torn coat"
regretful, sorry, bad - feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
impenitent, unremorseful, unrepentant - not penitent or remorseful


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As to the worthy convive of the preceding evening, he was carefully gathered up from the hunter's couch on which he lay, repentant and supine, and, being packed upon one of the horses, was hurried forward with the convoy, groaning and ejaculating at every jolt.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
She can play the repentant wife, or resort to the primeval profession of her sex.
The Malefactor by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
A month later, Mademoiselle Stangerson returned to her father, repentant, her heart dead within her, hoping only one thing: that she would never again see her husband, the horrible Ballmeyer.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Leroux, Gaston View in context
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