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1643 Let. Spirituall Advice 17 Who knowes I say, whether Almighty God may not be pleased to accept of even a death-bed repentance for them.

1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 310 Such a Death-bed Charity is too near a-kin to a Death-bed Repentance to be either much valued, or much depended upon.

1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra I. Ded. p. viii A death-bed repentance seldom reaches to restitution.

1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene III. xvii. 218 I considered..that repentance, under chance of death, was of about the same value as death-bed repentance.

1931 Amer. Mercury Feb. 159/1 The godly of the State..straightway filled the air with the usual stories about his death bed repentance.

1963 Times 2 May 17/3 It was deplorable that it should have needed unemployment of more than 900,000..to extract even this rather meagre deathbed repentance from the Government.

2001 R. Holloway Doubts & Love vii. 101 Is there another chance beyond death..? The absolute systems says a definite No to that. That is why death-bed repentances feature so strongly in history.