Definition of "repent" []

• To feel remorse, contrition, or self-reproach for what one has done or failed to do; be contrite. (verb-intransitive)
• To feel such regret for past conduct as to change one's mind regarding it: repented of intemperate behavior. (verb-intransitive)
• To make a change for the better as a result of remorse or contrition for one's sins. (verb-intransitive)
• To feel regret or self-reproach for: repent one's sins. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to feel remorse or regret. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Verbs that have no Participial Stem, express the Future Infinitive Active and Passive by fore ut or futūrum esse ut, with the Subjunctive; as, -- spērō fore ut tē paeniteat levitātis, _I hope you will repent of your fickleness_ (lit. _hope it will happen that you repent_); spērō futūrum esse ut hostēs arceantur, _I hope that the enemy will be kept off_.a. The Periphrastic Future Infinitive is often used, especially in the"
• "To this very man something did appear: He said, he saw the shape of an ancient man pass by him in the dusk, who, holding up his hand in a threatening posture, cried out, _O wicked man, repent, repent_."
• "Now either repent from the error of your ways, or accept your position of a radical, extremist crank pushing far-out, discredited ideas."