Definition of "repent" in English

verb

1. (intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".

   • Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

2. (theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.

3. (transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

4. (transitive) To be sorry for, to regret.

   • I repent my sins.

5. (archaic, transitive) To cause to have sorrow or regret.

6. (obsolete, reflexive) To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.

   • But if that I knewe what his name hight, For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]

7. (archaic, intransitive) To change one's mind.

adjective

1. (chiefly botany) Creeping along the ground.