repent

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The Tulkarm Brigades statement said anyone who had been working with Israeli security services had until Dec. 5 to come forward and repent.

From Reuters • Nov. 25, 2023

On Yom Kippur, Jews all over the world will fast, pray, avoid work or play and otherwise repent both for their sins and those of humanity as a whole.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2023

Choi wondered whether he would ever get the opportunity to publicly repent before he died.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023

"Not only do I not repent any of this, I am proud of it," he added.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2023

Yet I knew all the time, if I yielded now, I should not the less be made to repent, some day, of my former rebellion.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë