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repentaunce

repentaunce is the obsolete form of repentance.

Meaning of repentance

Noun

repentance (countable and uncountable, plural repentances)

  1. The action of repenting, an instance of it, atonement.
    • Christine Cooper: It's not wrong to sin. Christ came into this world for the sinners.
      DCI Tom Barnaby: To call people to repentance, Mrs Cooper.1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders
  2. The condition of being repentant, penitent, a state of feeling regret or remorse for having done wrong.
    • God hath denied me repentance. His words gives me no encouragement to believe.1678, Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, second period

Forms of repentaunce

pluralrepentaunces

Questions about repentaunce

What is repentaunce the obsolete form of?
Repentaunce is the obsolete form of repentance.

Words near repentaunce in the dictionary

  1. Repentance Creek
  2. repentances
  3. repentant
  4. repentantly
  5. repentants
  6. repentaunce
  7. repentaunces
  8. repented
  9. repenter
  10. repenters
  11. repentest

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