repentance
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The day marks the beginning of Lent, the most solemn season of repentance in the ecclesiastical year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
One common answer notes that sackcloth and ashes have been since biblical times a sign of repentance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
It says this is a "recognition of the need for repentance, humility and lament".
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
In the meantime, this aggressively revisionist supermarket, as indicated in Butler’s novel, has become part pharmacy, part a site of repentance for past consumption.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
“I mean...with Snape’s history...of course people were bound to wonder...but Dumbledore told me explicitly that Snape’s repentance was absolutely genuine... Wouldn’t hear a word against him!”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing repentance
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