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repentance(dictionary)

repentance (iou)



repentance noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French: see REPENTANT, -ANCE.]
The act of repenting or the state of being repentant; regret or contrition for past action; an instance of this.
stool of repentance Scottish History a stool formerly placed in a conspicuous position in a church on which offenders were to sit to make public repentance; a cutty-stool.