Dictionary entry

Repent (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Re‐pent″, v. t. 1. To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

I do repent it from my very soul. Shak.

2. To feel regret or sorrow; — used reflexively.

My father has repented him ere now. Dryden.

3. To cause to have sorrow or regret; — used impersonally. “And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth.” Gen. vi. 6.