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Remorseful vs Repentance – What’s the difference?

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Remorseful vs Repentance - What's the difference?
As an adjective remorseful is (of a person) feeling or filled with remorse.

As a noun repentance is the condition of being penitent.

remorseful

English

Adjective

(en adjective )

  • (of a person) Feeling or filled with remorse.
    • He was so remorseful that he voluntarily paid full restitution.
  • Expressing or caused by remorse.
    • There was a remorseful look on her face.

    Synonyms

    * penitent
    * apologetic
    * regretful
    *

    Antonyms

    * unremorseful
    * unrepentant

    Related terms

    * remorse
    * remorsefully
    * remorsefulness

    References

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    * ” remorseful” in Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary © Cambridge University Press 2007.
    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
    * Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.

    repentance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * repentaunce (archaic)

    Noun

    (wikipedia repentance )
    (–)

  • The condition of being penitent.
  • A feeling of regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning.

    • Synonyms

    * compunction
    * contrition
    * penitence
    * remorse
    * See also

    Related terms

    * repent
    * repentant
    * repentantly
    * repented
    * repenting

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