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Latin

poenitire

to make sorry

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A text-free three-moment sequence shows the same man angrily kicking another man's potted plant over, confronting the damage with visible remorse, and then carefully repotting the plant while its owner watches.
verb

repent

rih-PENT/rɪˈpent/

To feel sincere regret for wrongdoing and resolve to change.

Etymology
reLatinback, again; restoration or reversal
+pentLatinto make sorry

The underlying idea is being made sorry, with re- perhaps intensifying the feeling. To repent is to feel that sorrow deeply enough to change one's mind or conduct.

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