REPENT   

REGRET so as to FEEL SHAME AND DECIDE TO CHANGE ONE'S BEHAVIOUR.
Old Chinese Criteria
懺悔
Hypernym
  • REGRET　DISSATISFIED IN-RELATION-TO one's SELF:own PAST ACTION.BECAUSE one BELIEVES them to have been WICKED. (anc: 13/0, child: 1)
  • DISSATISFIED　BAD FEELING IN-RELATION-TO something that one BELIEVES is not SUFFICIENTLY GOOD OR BAD. (anc: 12/0, child: 2)
  • FEELING　NATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND. (anc: 11/0, child: 17)
  • De Rerum Humanarum Emendatione ( COMENIUS 1665) p. 615

    POENITENTIA animi angor ob rem factam, qvam qvis infectam vellet, nec potest, proponit ergo saltem cavere posthac. Tria ergo habet 1. Malefacti conscientiam. 2. Dolorem. 3. Cavendi posthac propositum.

    Ax. Poenitentia certissimus est liberi in nobis ad actiones arbitrij testis. V. Conscientia.

  • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 717

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