repentant

Modifies a noun

• sinner: He could lay no claim to virtue; he was just a repentant sinner.
• heart: His wife came to visit him and was touched by his repentant heart and newfound peace.
• person: It would be like asking a repentant person to return to their sins!
• thief: Northern Echo Sixties egg thief returns his booty A repentant thief has owned up to stealing a rare bird's egg 43 years ago.
• faith: He is pacified by a simple act of repentant faith in Jesus Christ.
• people: For the Essenes, righteous and repentant people were all " sons of God " , and as such were a holy priesthood.

Modifying Another Word

• truly: The truly repentant sinner is devastated by the way he has offended God with his sin.
• not: I'm not repentant about it, it's worked out very well for me.
• genuinely: But there is now a new will to act and you are genuinely repentant when you fail.
• now: You remember that she is introduced to Stead as a woman who has been steeped in sin, but is now repentant.
• deeply: However, when Joey attempts to go to Mike, Madge speaks to Jack, who forgives his deeply repentant son.
• very: We are told that she became a common beggar and soon died, very repentant.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: In forty years they would be saved if they remained repentant.
• become: This, in turn, it was argued, would lead the prisoner to think about his crime and become repentant.