单词 | repenter |
释义 | repentern. A person who repents; a penitent. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > [noun] > person undergoing penantc1330 repentantc1390 penitenta1425 penancera1500 repenter1543 penitentiary1563 shrift child1568 penitentionary1577 contritea1600 penitencerc1600 confessanta1603 shriveling1603 confitent1606 confessary1608 penitentiala1633 confessionaire1747 mourner1807 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > one who repents penantc1330 penitentc1390 repentantc1390 repenter1543 contritea1600 ruera1628 penitentiala1633 1543 G. Joye Unite & Scisme Olde Chirche sig. C.iv The trwe repenters sorow and lament that euer thei haue offended so benigne and ientle a father. 1562 Bp. J. Pilkington Vision of Abdy in Aggeus & Abdias Prophetes sig. Hh.viii A kyngdom can not stande without ministering of iustice: punyshinge sinne,..deliuering the innocent repenter, and condemninge obstinates. 1621 A. Cade Serm. Nature of Conscience 34 Judas..did now repent..much better then the ordinary repenters at shrift. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 73 Some say, a Bishop Covenanter, If a penitent repenter, Causeth more Joy to Sp'rits Divine, Then all the other ninety nine. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. i. 21 Having inrolled myself among the too-late repenters, who shall pity me? 1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 101 The repenters..ought forthwith to quit the wicked Church of England. 1951 Mod. Philol. 49 43/1 No one of them is..an unselfish repenter for wrong done, like Othello or Lear. 2003 C. Yung-Fa in J. N. Wasserstrom 20th-cent. China viii. 175 Zhang Keqin appeared at the mass meetings as a model repenter and urged other ‘spies’ to follow his own example. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1543 |
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