repentance
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This insight reminds me of a Lenten devotional piece by Jesuit Rick Ganz, who discloses what motivates repentance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
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
The man responsible for two extremely graphic videos, Wang Chaoyi, was detained for 15 days by the Chinese authorities and forced to issue a "letter of repentance".
From BBC • Aug. 3, 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
In less time than it took me to say the Lord’s Prayer, he had worked himself into a frenzy that sent the congregation to its feet, moaning their repentance and the ecstasy of redemption.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Vocabulary lists containing repentance
The Poet X
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