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repentance

noun as in feeling bad for past action

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Smyth introduced the notion to Mr Morse that he was "sinning" and needed to "mark those sense in a form of repentance that really would mean something to the Lord".

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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.

This 10-day stretch ends with Yom Kippur, a day of fasting, repentance and commemoration of the dead.

Eventually, Mary comes clean, and a bevy of local teens show up in court with their various stolen diner items in an act of mass repentance.

The Attorney’s Office said investigators found a six-page note in a flowerbed near the attack addressed to “Dear Satanist” and urged repentance.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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