for; be penitent &c. adj.; rue; regret &c. 833;
think better of; recant &c. 607; knock under &c. (submit) 725; plead guilty; sing miserere[Lat], sing de profundis[Lat]; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess &c, (disclose) 529; humble oneself; beg pardon &c. (apologize) 952; turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes &c, (do penance) 952; learn by experience. 
     Adj. penitent; repenting &c.v.; repentant, contrite; conscience-
smitten, conscience-stricken; self-accusing, self-convicted.
     penitential, penitentiary; reclaimed, reborn; not hardened;
unhardened[obs3]. 
     Adv. mea culpa. 
     Phr. peccavi; erubuit[Lat]; salva res est [Lat][Terence]; Tu l’as
voulu[Fr], Georges Dandin; “and wet his grave with my repentant tears” [Richard III].

     #951.  Impenitence. —­ N. impenitence, irrepentance[obs3],
recusance[obs3]; lack of contrition.
     hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy. 
     V. be impenitent &c. adj.; steel the heart, harden the heart; die
game, die and make no sign, die unshriven, die without benefit of clergy. 
     Adj. impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate; hard, hardened; seared,
recusant; unrepentant; relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless[obs3].
     lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable.
     unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed; unrepented[obs3],
unreclaimed[obs3], unatoned.

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     #952.  Atonement. —­ N. atonement, reparation; compromise, composition;
compensation &c. 30; quittance, quits; expiation, redemption, reclamation, conciliation, propitiation; indemnification, redress.
     amends, apology, amende honorable[obs3], satisfaction; peace offering,
sin offering, burnt offering; scapegoat, sacrifice.
     penance, fasting, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, white sheet,
shrift, flagellation, lustration[obs3]; purgation, purgatory. 
     V. atone, atone for; expiate; propitiate; make amends, make good;
reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom, absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand in a white sheet, repent in sackcloth and ashes, wear a hairshirt.
     set one’s house in order, wipe off old scores, make matters up; pay
the forfeit, pay the penalty.
     apologize, beg pardon, fair l’amende honorable[Fr], give satisfaction;
come down on one’s knees, fall down on one’s knees, down on one’s marrow bones.

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     #953.  Temperance. —­ N. temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness.
     forbearance, abnegation; self-denial, self-restraint, self-control &c.
(resolution) 604.
     frugality; vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence; abstinence,
abstemiousness; Encratism[obs3], prohibition; system of Pythagoras, system of Cornaro; Pythagorism, Stoicism.
     vegetarian; Pythagorean, gymnosophist[obs3].