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resipiscence|rɛsɪˈpɪsəns|
[a. F. résipiscence, or ad. L. resipiscentia, f. resipiscĕre to recover one's senses, come to oneself again, f. re- re- + sapĕre: see sapient.]
Repentance for misconduct; recognition of errors committed; return to a better mind or opinion.
1570T. Norton tr. Nowel's Catech. (1853) 177 Sinners..have need of repentance, which some like better to call resipiscence or amendment. 1606in Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vii. (1677) 499 Nothing had appeared in them but an obdured obstinacy, without any token of resipiscence. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ xxiii. 231 If their return be upon the score of resipiscence, far be it from me to be such an one as Beza complains of.
1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) II. viii. 67 They drew a flattering picture of the resipiscence of the Anglican party. 1864Merivale Conv. Rom. Emp. 37 Full of horror at his own backsliding, full of hope for his tardy resipiscence. 1881Saintsbury Dryden vi. 127 These prefaces and dedications show an ever-growing command of prose style, and, very soon, the resipiscence of Dryden's judgement.
So † resiˈpiscency. Obs.
c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden No. 36) 122 [Gildas] somtimes gentlie exorting them to goodnes and resipiscentie. 1672Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend §40 So closely shut up within the holds of vice and iniquity, as not to find some escape by a postern of resipiscency. |