repentantlyadv.
/rᵻˈpɛnt(ə)ntli/, U.S. /rəˈpɛntn(t)li/, /riˈpɛntn(t)li/ In a repentant manner.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [adverb]
repentantlya1555
penitently1561
repentingly1595
compunctually1625
penitentially1648
remorsefully1702
contritely1829
compunctiously1863
society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penitence > [adverb]
repentantlya1555
penitently1561
repentingly1595
compunctually1625
penitentially1648
remorsefully1702
contritely1829
a1555 H. Latimer Serm. (1758) II. xli. 868 Those which die repentantly..those which die in such a faith, shall come into everlasting life and felicity, and shall also rise in the last day in a state of salvation.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie Ss iij As that one vnder that one maide did die Repentaunt; so this other repentauntlie Under this other maide.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 78 To recouer his faith, which he ought to looke after repentantly and with more zeale.
1769 Garrick’s Vagary ii. 25 As in Farquhar's Play young Jubilee Dicky Is repentantly forc'd to cry peccavi.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxviii. 273 She checked herself repentantly, saying, ‘Well, we must not laugh at her [etc.].’
1917 C. R. Payne tr. O. Pfister Psychoanalytic Method ii. xi. 393 I confess repentantly the guilt which I have brought upon myself as murderer of my father and relatives.
1996 J. L. H. Keep Last of Empires xiv. 299 A young Russian in jeans is depicted coming back repentantly to a home with icons on the walls.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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