REPENT  

REGRET so as to FEEL SHAME AND DECIDE TO CHANGE ONE'S BEHAVIOUR.
Hypernym
  • REGRETDISSATISFIED IN-RELATION-TO one's SELF:own PAST ACTION.BECAUSE one BELIEVES them to have been WICKED.
    • DISSATISFIEDBAD FEELING IN-RELATION-TO something that one BELIEVES is not SUFFICIENTLY GOOD OR BAD.
      • FEELINGNATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND.
        • REACTCHANGE one's THINKING OR ACTING BECAUSE one is PERCEIVING something....
Old Chinese Criteria
懺悔

  • 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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