🇬🇧 Repentance meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Repentance is when you feel truly and deeply sorry for something wrong you did, you admit it was wrong, and you really wish you could go back and not do it. It’s more than just saying “sorry” quickly. With repentance, you feel it in your heart, you tell the truth about what you did, and you try your best to change your behavior so you don’t do the same wrong thing again.

His repentance for “accidentally” eating all the cake was suspiciously delayed until after the last crumb was gone.

The cat’s repentance lasted exactly three seconds before she knocked the plant off the table again.

My repentance for laughing at my sister’s bedhead came fast when my own hair decided to look like a chicken nest.

My repentance for scaring Grandma with a rubber spider grew when she chased me with a real one.

In many stories, heroes only truly change after they feel real repentance—unlike my brother, who “repents” for taking my snacks while still chewing them.

He watched the vase fall and felt instant repentance. He gathered shards, hands trembling, tears of repentance on his face. He went to the door, voice full of repentance, and admitted the fault. He swept, paid for a new vase, a quiet act of repentance. The old woman saw his repentance and nodded, then forgave him.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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