Word Meanings - REPENTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer. Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. Millton. 2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains." Pope.
Related words: (words related to REPENTANT)
- SORROW
The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great - SORROWED
Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak. - REPENTANT
1. Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer. Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. Millton. 2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains." Pope. - PENITENTIAL
Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse. - SHOWROOM
A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed. - SHOWILY
In a showy manner; pompously; with parade. - VOLUNTARY
Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle - REPENTANTLY
In a repentant manner. - PENITENTLY
In a penitent manner. - SHOWING
1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill. - SHOWER
1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif. - SHOWMAN
One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show. - SORROWLESS
Free from sorrow. - EXPRESSURE
The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak. - STOOD
imp. & p. p. of Stand. - PAINSTAKER
One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay. - EXPRESS TRAIN
Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops. - EXPRESSIVE
1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning - PENITENT
p.pr. of paenitere, poenitere, to cause to repent, to repent; prob. 1. Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life. Be penitent, and for thy - SHOWERY
1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton. - UNDERSTOOD
imp. & p. p. of Understand. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - UNVOLUNTARY
Involuntary. Fuller. - LAMPLIGHTER
The calico bass. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps. - DROPLIGHT
An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant. - VARIETY SHOW
A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show. - RAREE-SHOW
A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope. - POTASHES
Potash. - INEXPRESSIBLY
In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.