Resipiscence
[REH-sih-PIH-səns]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Middle French, 16th century
1.
Repentance combining acknowledgment of wrongdoing and wish to do better in the future.
Examples of Resipiscence in a sentence
"When I realized how I had offended my colleague, I immediately expressed my resipiscence."
"Morton expressed resipiscence for the wild behavior of his younger days."
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