Middle English Dictionary Entry
repentaunt adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | repentaunt adj. Also repentaunte, -dant & (error) repentaunce; pl. repentauntes. |
| Etymology | OF repentant |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Penitent, contrite, sorry for sins or wrongdoing; ben ~, to be sorry, etc.; also, apologize [quot.: a1425]; (b) as noun: a penitent; -- also coll.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230 Ancr.(Corp-C 402)36/19 : Ich..riht repentant neauer nes of mine greaste sunnen.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)2377 : Þeos luþere kniȝtes..þat slowen seint thomas..weren echone repentaunt, ne miȝten none men more.
- c1300 SLeg.Oxf.Scholar (Hrl 2277)27 : To a frere he wende to schrifte..Repentant he was ynouȝ of þulke liþere dede.
- a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)602 : Þe ffoles..byleuede wiþoute echon, As shal ech man þulke tyme, bote hit were aserued by-ffore, Ne beo he neuere so repentaunt.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)27/752 : Ȝyf þou wylt tak hyt [Eucharist]..Ryȝt repentaunt and ryȝt deuout Take hys deaþ in þy meende.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.228 : For if he yaf, he dorste make auaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2960 : She fand hise aduersaries ful repentant [vr. repentaunte], knowelechynge ful lowely hir synnes and trespas.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)12114 : Yn heuene ys more ioye auenaunt Of a synful man repentaunt [F vn pecheur repentant] Þan of nynty aungelys and nyne Þat neuer synned.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)29350 : He þat in torneament es slayn..In kyrk-yarde aght naman him deluen..be he neuer sa repentand.
- a1425 KAlex.(LinI 150)4188 : Y am repentand, seþ ȝe no doþ, For harme no dude Y hit for soþ.
- (c1434) Drury Wks.(CmbAdd 2830)76/7 : Ferst be contrit, þat is to seyn, repentaunt & sorry for alle þyn synnys þat þu hast don.
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)59/20 : If the good spirite repentaunte [vr. repentaunce] of his synnes..be ioyned and newe entred in-to the ryghte wey, it plesith righte well..Jhesu Criste, that he aqueynte him with penaunce.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)13998 : Me lykes to sayue now Nyniue be cause þei ar repentand ryȝt.
- c1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)136/5 : Ofte forto fast..as religious folk..and repentaunt folk done.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)109 : No thyng is cleyme as be tytle of ryht, But of mercy..Vn-to synnerys that deye repentaunt.
- c1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)140/30 : He was repentant that euer he faughte agayn the citezens of Rome.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)65/31 : Men awe to praye to goddys pitee..bysekand forgyfnesse of hir trespas, and be rependant [Ashmole: askyng..punycion or penaunce; L penitentes] of hir synnes.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)9336 : The þridde way is purgatorye..There shal þei be til þei be clene Þat here repentaunt were sene.
b
- c1390 Psalt.Mariae(2) (Vrn)43 : Heil Modur ful of grace..To repentaunt þou getest space.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.89 : He is a iapere..and no verray repentant that eft soone dooth thyng for which hym oghte repente.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)28651 : Repentand agh to mak him bun, Wit-vten sonen to do þe mendes.
- (?1406) Hoccl.MR (Hnt HM 111)414 : Relkeeue the repentant in disese!
- c1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)4.348 : Thou art mercyable..To repentant, by rygour nat vengeable.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Test.(Hrl 218)888 : It is my guyse All repentaunt [vr. repentauntes] to bryng hem to my blysse, For whom my blood I gaf in sacryfice.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)73/38 : Ther moste be considerid the gretnes of compunccion þat is in the repentaunt.