The word 'repentant' is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to describe someone who deeply regrets their actions or words and wishes they could take them back. For example, "The repentant student apologized to the teacher for her disruptive behavior."
After he turned down the paedophiles, Michael told me, he noticed he was getting sign-ups from neo-Nazis, albeit repentant former ones.
Adulation for Saint-Exupéry, the repentant supporter of the wartime Vichy regime [which operated during the Nazi occupation], who sacrificed his life to regain his honour, arouses extravagant homage.
After a lengthy indictment was read out, repentant ringleaders were shown making their confessions.A convoluted indictment described the unravelling of a project that had aimed to overthrow the state by means of a carefully planned effort to cast doubt on the presidential election.
Reunited with their families, they had benefited, as had several hundred other repentant jihadists, from state pensions designed to ease a return to civilian life.
Notable pro-marriage arguments came from a set of Republicans, some of them repentant, and a collection of 278 businesses and organisations who find it a real drag to maintain separate tax records under DOMA.
The authorities have dismantled many of the terrorists' cells and are deploying soft power (for example, putting repentant jihadists on television and the internet) in a bid to win hearts and minds.Moreover the country is flush with cash.
They tend to take a relaxed view of the Baathist credentials of Mr George and the head of the antiquities board, Jabir Khalil Ibrahim; no one in a senior position, they say, was unqualified.Since the looting, nine works of art from the public galleries, and hundreds more from the stores, have been returned, many from repentant locals.
All Kenneth Clarke had to do was wait for the call from a grateful and repentant party.Only a few months ago the idea that these elections could finish the Conservative leader had almost achieved the status of received wisdom at Westminster.
It may also have been a repentant nod to Vladimir Putin's Russia.
And the scars were ripped wide open in 1995, when a repentant former naval officer, Adolfo Scilingo, spoke publicly of the way dissidents were dumped, drugged but alive, from naval aircraft into the sea.In this section Losing, badly The dead of the dirty wars come back to life Welcome to Havana, Your Holiness ReprintsPresident Menem at first reproved him, but swiftly changed his tune.
"It is of great necessity", he writes, "for the Roman Curia to make repentant self-reflections over its antagonistic actions to Chinese people" during the 1930s and 1940s, when China was at war with Japan.On the face of it, Mr Ren's invitation to repent over alleged misdeeds long ago does not sound promising.
