What's the difference between regent and repent?

Regent


Definition:

  • (a.) Ruling; governing; regnant.
  • (a.) Exercising vicarious authority.
  • (a.) One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.
  • (a.) Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
  • (a.) One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
  • (a.) A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An ‘approved’ poster in the student center at Regent University.
  • (2) Her parents, Apiruj and Wanthanee Suwadee, were found guilty of violating Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code which says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
  • (3) They were banging on their shields and chasing these people up Regent Street.
  • (4) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
  • (5) Similarly, on the south side of the nearby Regent's Canal stand huge blocks of modern private apartments; two-bed flats here have a £600,000 price tag .
  • (6) According to Vince McCartney of Holborn Studios, “there will be a corridor of steel and glass from King’s Cross to Limehouse” – a distance of about five miles along the Regent’s Canal – as waterside spaces are made into flats.
  • (7) People have felt part of this right throughout the season,” said Bodiat, 19, a student from Regent College who had come out with four other friends all wearing blue headscarves.
  • (8) I’m a tax exile.” The high-profile property developer – who with his brother, Nick, developed the superluxe One Hyde Park apartment complex for London’s oligarchs and is now converting a row of seven houses overlooking Regent’s Park into a single 4,600 sq metre London mansion – even named his twins Isabella Monaco Evanthia and Cayman Charles Wolf.
  • (9) Squatters inside the building, a former police station in Beak Street, off Regent Street, accused police of heavy-handed tactics after they were led out by officers who forced their way in after a tense standoff lasting more than three hours.
  • (10) Had something happened to his spouse, Prince Philip would have served as Regent until his son came of age.
  • (11) Serological survey of the other primates in the Regent's Park collection did not reveal the presence of the surface antigen in 2 gorillas, 11 orang-utans, and 2 gibbons, although surface antibody was present in the serum of 1 gorilla and 2 orang-utans.
  • (12) The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park won best musical revival for Hello Dolly!
  • (13) Right now, there are properties for sale for tens of millions of pounds around London's Regent's Park.
  • (14) A typical sales pitch comes from Pendragon Management in London , with an office address in Regent Street.
  • (15) "As a leader, I have always followed the principles I first saw demonstrated by the regent at the 'great place'," Mandela recalled.
  • (16) It gets even worse when you are proud of the fact that you went to Pat Robertson’s God Hates Facts pay-and-print diploma mill Regents University, where you wrote , “Every level of government should statutorially and procedurally prefer married couples over cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators.” So it gets fantastically worse when you describe your marriage as on “hold” and live during the trial with your parish priest, Rev Wayne Ball of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, whose assignations Talking Points Memo delicately summarizes as thus : Ball, then pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Norfolk, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of frequenting a bawdy place.
  • (17) Cotton was a founder of the American College of Surgeons and served as Regent of the College as well as on the Committee on Fractures.
  • (18) At that time there were nine wolves still left on the island, and Isle Royale National Park Superintendent Phyllis Green said: “The decision is not to intervene as long as there is a breeding population.” Regent Honeyeater breeding program boosts population of endangered bird Read more In just one year, that “breeding population” is all but extinct.
  • (19) The New West End Company, which represents 600 retailers on Oxford Street, Bond Street and Regent Street, estimated about 1 million shoppers had visited their stores over the weekend – fewer than the 1.2 million customers they had expected based on last year's figures.
  • (20) But no – we just run down Piccadilly Circus and into Regent Street, then Oxford Street.

Repent


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our fast will continue for as long as we prayerfully discern that we stand in need of repentance as a Church.
  • (2) Russian law does not make repentance a condition for an early release.
  • (3) The first test is whether he will appoint any repentant Big Beasts to his shadow cabinet.
  • (4) It would also underline that true rehabilitation of offenders requires remorse and repentance as otherwise the punishment has not served it’s underlying purpose; it could be argued that the offender has not really paid the full price for their crime and so forfeits their entitlement to rebuild their life without restriction.
  • (5) The Gove era saw much activity in haste and less repentance in leisure.
  • (6) But proud or repentant about their body art, more than 100 employees at the Osaka city government may have to have their tattoos removed or search for another job following the local mayor's crackdown on tattoos.
  • (7) "Prosecutors said Liu had a very good attitude in confession and a strong desire to repent," Xinhua reported.
  • (8) Updated at 11.56am BST 11.41am BST Predict in haste, repent at leisure .
  • (9) Alyokhina was refused early release after prosecutors said she hadn't repented of her crime and had violated prison rules.
  • (10) "Is it unimaginable that those who plotted, participated or played any role in the massacre of Luxor, become the rulers even if they renounced and repented it," said Tharwat Agamy, the head of Luxor's tourism chamber.
  • (11) Finally he remembered a man who had been suspended by the ANC for some minor infraction of discipline and who was only too pleased to show repentance by driving his president anywhere he wanted at any time of day or night.
  • (12) He survived an assassination attempt in Jeddah in September 2009 when a Saudi Aqap operative named Abdullah al-Asiri feigned repentance for his jihadi views in a meeting with the prince then blew himself up with a bomb concealed in his anus.
  • (13) A lesbian woman due to be deported from Britain to Uganda has been told by a Ugandan MP that she must "repent or reform" when she returns home.
  • (14) It was the bishop of Norwich, who speaks for the Church of England on the media, who pointed out in a Lords debate that this wilful isolation, this stubborn failure to face reality, was making things worse for the press: "The sad thing is that there has been surprisingly little public repentance and a great deal of self-justification and lapses of memory.
  • (15) Rejected as a candidate for the priesthood, the English author Frederick Rolfe wrote, under the pseudonym “Baron Corvo”, a novel, Hadrian the Seventh (1904), in which a failed priest is later made pope by a repentant Vatican.
  • (16) As they say – marry in haste and repent at leisure."
  • (17) Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister, has said he thinks they should be released, while the Russian Orthodox church has called for them to be released if they repent.
  • (18) Repentance, the process of change in Evangelical Renewal Therapy, is achieved through the analysis of moral action, rebuke, confession, prayer, recompense, and mortification through good works.
  • (19) If someone has not been convicted we cannot judge people on rumours, without proof,” he said, stressing that his decree did not close the door to mafia figures seeking to repent.
  • (20) As well as calling on the church to show "real repentance for the lack of welcome and acceptance extended to homosexual people in the past", the report also urges it to think about whether it is reasonable to allow lay people to be in sexually active same-sex relationships while requiring celibacy from its clergy and bishops, saying: "In the facilitated discussions it will be important to reflect on the extent to which the laity and the clergy should continue to observe such different disciplines."