Synonyms

1. atone

Sentence Examples

1. Marry in haste, repent in leisure, so the saying went.
2. And thus when I reflect on this, I am almost tempted to say that in my heart I repent of having adopted this profession of knight-errant in so detestable an age as we live in now for though no peril can make me fear, still it gives me some uneasiness to think that powder and lead may rob me of the opportunity of making myself famous and renowned throughout the known earth by the might of my arm and the edge of my sword.
3. They seem very comfortable as they are, and if she were to take any pains to marry him, she would probably repent it.
4. During the whole period of my being thus employed, I endured the most terrible distress from difficulty of respiration, and bitterly did I repent the negligence or rather fool-hardiness, of which I had been guilty, of putting off to the last moment a matter of so much importance.
5. But one who leads the people astray will not even get a chance to repent.
6. I had several men died in my ship of calentures, so that I was forced to get recruits out of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, where I touched by the direction of the merchants who employed me which I had soon too much cause to repent for I found afterwards that most of them had been buccaneers.
7. I would not have it said that I slew a man without giving him time to repent his crimes.
8. Peace be with thee who hast sent war to me, and Heaven grant that the deceit of thy husband be ever hidden from thee, so that thou repent not of what thou hast done, and I reap not a revenge I would not have.
9. She will repent, and no one will know that she has been guilty.
10. She did not repent what she had done she still thought herself a better judge of such a point of female right and refinement than he could be but yet she had a sort of habitual respect for his judgment in general, which made her dislike having it so loudly against her and to have him sitting just opposite to her in angry state, was very disagreeable.