Sentence examples for repenter from inspiring English sources
The word 'repenter' is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that refers to someone who repents or shows remorse for their actions. Example: The convict showed no signs of being a repenter, even when faced with the evidence against him.
Similarly for "The Robber's (Repenter's) Paradox", where now we focus on the robber making amends (or repenting) for his crime, and again we seem to get the result that it is impermissible for the robber to make amends for his crime, suggesting a rather convenient argument against all obligations to ever make amends for one's crimes.
In today's Iran, the interrogator, not the repenter, has become the object of rage and ridicule.
Mr. Simon depicted Mr. Agron as a woefully mistreated youth and as a true repenter in prison.
"Iran was not invited to Paris, which I would call a Coalition of Repenters, because most participants in that meeting, in one form or another, provided support to ISIS in the course of its creation and upbringing and expansion — actually, at the end of the day, creating a Frankenstein that came to haunt its creators".
In an era of warring ideologies, the only meaningful contest was for domination, and the repenters were clearly the losers.
These repenters became hated figures, and the word for them, tavab, a term of abuse.
Freaky chiliastic cults start springing up: the Renouncers and Repenters - whose frenzied self-laceration reminded me a little of Roy Andersson's millennial fantasy Songs from the Second Floor, in which a little girl is sacrificed to stave off the last judgment.
"Another witness told the tribunal of the psychological rape that turned him into a puppet, who would shoot his fellow prisoners as member of a firing squad of tavabeen (repenters)." Prisoners' families were forced to pay for the bullets used to shoot their loved ones and assaulted when they tried to hold mourning services, the tribunal heard.
The work was intended to be funded by penitent sinners – but there are more tourists than repenters around these days (it is the city's most popular destination, with 4.5 million visitors in 2016), so tourists are footing the bill.
