Clues for the word "REPENT"
We've had 71 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 135 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on November 15, 2025.
Definition of repent
- a. - Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
- a. - Same as Reptant.
- v. i. - To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.
- v. i. - To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.
- v. i. - To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
- v. t. - To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
- v. t. - To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.
- v. t. - To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally.
Referring Clues
- Don sackcloth
- Heed John the Baptist's advice
- Don sackcloth and ashes
- Show remorse
- Get ready for Judgment Day
- Doomsayer's sign
- Preacher's directive
- Have a change of heart
- Feel remorse for
- Say "I'm sorry"
- Evangelist's imperative
- Religious exhortation
- Evangelist's cry
- "Be saved!"
- Cover oneself in sackcloth and ashes
- Feel sorry for
- Atone
- Admonition to sinners
- Feel contrition
- Show contrition
- Evangelist's admonition
- Regret one's sins
- Evangelist's exhortation
- Regret one's wrongdoings
- Word in a street-corner sermon, perhaps
- John the Baptist's exhortation
- Word from John the Baptist
- Feel contrite
- Make amends
- Command on a religious nut's protest sign
- Confess
- Mend one's ways
- Be contrite
- Advice to sinners
- Turn from sin
- Revivalist's exhortation
- Preacher's exhortation
- Regret one's 32-Acrosses
- Preacher's imperative
- Regret
- Advice to a sinner
- Say "I shouldn't have done that"
- Apologize for one's sins
- Admonition to a sinner
- Street-corner doomsayer's sign
- Be in a sorry state?
- Think better of
- Be sorry
- Feel regret
- Be sorry for soldiers cooped up
- Feel remorse
- Wish you hadn't got the material (net) torn
- Regret taking root
- Soldiers imprisoned feel remorse
- Be sorry about being shut up
- Regret past evil or heartless present, perhaps?
- Feel or express contrition
- Be sorry (for)
- Be sorry for being in prison again
- Prepare for the Rapture
- Be regretful
- Obey a father, in a way
- Mend one's sinful ways
- Father's exhortation
- Rue
- "Save yourself from sin!"
- Swear off sinning
- Seek penance
- Reverend's advice
- Preacher's advice
- Swear off, with "of"
Last Seen In
- New York Times - November 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 08, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 31, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 27, 2024
- Mirror Mini - October 29, 2024
- USA Today - October 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 17, 2024
- Mirror Mini - February 09, 2024
- Mirror Mini - October 29, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - October 21, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 05, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - March 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 15, 2023
- And in 105 more crossword puzzles...