Word Meanings - REPENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems. Gray.
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- LAMENTING
Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak. - GRIEVE
1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over; - REPENTANT
1. Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer. Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. Millton. 2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains." Pope. - DEPLOREDNESS
The state of being deplored or deplorable. Bp. Hail. - REGRETFUL
Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining. -- Re*gret"ful*ly, adv. - LAMENTED
Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope. - REPENTANTLY
In a repentant manner. - LAMENT
To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20. - LAMENTINGLY
In a lamenting manner. - DEPLOREMENT
Deploration. - DEPLORER
One who deplores. - REGRET
1. Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some - LAMENTIN
See LAMANTIN - REPENTINGLY
With repentance; penitently. - 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. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 20. Repentance is a change of mind, - GRIEVE; GREEVE
A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott. - GRIEVER
One who, or that which, grieves. - DEPLORE
1. To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over. To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss. Milton. As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. Pope. 2. To complain of. Shak. 3. To regard - LAMENTABLE
1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. "Lamentable eye." Spenser. 2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." Burke. - REPENTLESS
Unrepentant. - FILAMENTOUS
Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray. - ENGRIEVE
To grieve. Spenser. - IRREPENTANCE
Want of repentance; impenitence. Bp. Montagu. - VORTEX FILAMENT
A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section. - LOCULAMENT
The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged. - INGRIEVE
To render more grievous; to aggravate. Sir P. Sidney.