repentance

n. [ F. repentance. ] The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of repentance; yet they are too closely connected with it to be easily separated. Rambler. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness; compunction. See Contrition. [ 1913 Webster ]