释义 |
repenter|rɪˈpɛntə(r)| [f. as prec. + -er1.] One who repents, a penitent.
1621Cade Serm. 34 Judas..did now repent..much better then the ordinary repenters at shrift. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1710) 74 Some say, a Bishop Covenanter, If a Penitent repenter, Causeth more Joy to Sp'rits Divine, Than all the other ninety nine. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. 371 Having enrolled myself among the too-late repenters, who shall pity me? 1842G. S. Faber Prov. Lett. (1844) II. 101 The repenters..ought forthwith to quit the wicked Church of England. |