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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abject, apologetic, ascetic, ashamed, atoning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compunctious, contrite, embarrassed, expiatory, humble, humbled, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, melted, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, piacular, propitiatory, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, regretful, remorseful, reparative, reparatory, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, rueful, satisfactional, sheepish, softened, sorry, squaring, touched
Dictionary Results for repentant:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
repentant
    adj 1: feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds [syn:
           penitent, repentant] [ant: impenitent,
           unremorseful, unrepentant]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Repentant \Re*pent"ant\ (-ant), a. [F. repentant.]
   1. Penitent; sorry for sin. --Chaucer.
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            Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood.
                                                  --Millton.
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   2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears;
      repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains."
      --Pope.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Repentant \Re*pent"ant\, n.
   One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a
   penitent.
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