Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Repentance \Re*pent"ance\ (r[-e]*p[e^]nt"ans), n. [F.
   repentance.]
   The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow
   for what one has done or omitted to do; especially,
   contrition for sin. --Chaucer.

         Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. --2. Cor.
                                                  vii. 20.

         Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from
         sin to God.                              --Hammond.

         Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from
         the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow, fear,
         and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of
         repentance; yet they are too closely connected with it
         to be easily separated.                  --Rambler.

   Syn: Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness;
        compunction. See {Contrition}.

Source : WordNet®

repentance
     n : remorse for your past conduct [syn: {penitence}, {penance}]