repentant

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
repentant
    adj 1: feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds [syn:
           {penitent}, {repentant}] [ant: {impenitent},
           {unremorseful}, {unrepentant}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Repentant \Re*pent"ant\, n.
   One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a
   penitent.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Repentant \Re*pent"ant\ (-ant), a. [F. repentant.]
   1. Penitent; sorry for sin. --Chaucer.
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            Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood.
                                                  --Millton.
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   2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears;
      repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains."
      --Pope.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "repentant":
      abject, apologetic, ascetic, ashamed, atoning, cleansing,
      compensational, compensatory, compunctious, contrite, embarrassed,
      expiatory, humble, humbled, lustral, lustrational, lustrative,
      melted, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, piacular,
      propitiatory, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory,
      recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, regretful,
      remorseful, reparative, reparatory, repenting, restitutional,
      restitutive, restitutory, righting, rueful, satisfactional,
      sheepish, softened, sorry, squaring, touched
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