different between repent vs prostrate

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French repentir, from Vulgar Latin *repoenitere, from re- + a late derivative of poenitere (“be penitent”), alteration of Latin paenitere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

repent (third-person singular simple present repents, present participle repenting, simple past and past participle repented)

1. (intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
2. (theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.
3. (transitive) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
4. (transitive) To be sorry for, to regret.

5. (archaic, transitive) To cause to have sorrow or regret.

   • at that time she wolde nat, she seyde, for she was syke and myght nat ryde. "That me repentith," seyde the kynge […].
6. (obsolete, reflexive) To cause (oneself) to feel pain or regret.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     But if that I knewe what his name hight,
     For clatering of me I would him ?one quight;
     For his fal?e lying, of that I ?pake never,
     I could make him ?hortly repent him forever: […]

Synonyms

• afterthink
• regret
• rue

Derived terms

• marry in haste, repent at leisure

Related terms

• penance
• repentance
• repentant
• penitence
• penitent
• unrepentable

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin r?p?ns, present participle of r?p? (“I creep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?p?nt/

Adjective

repent

1. (chiefly botany) Creeping along the ground.

Synonyms

• reptant

References

• repent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• repent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Verb

repent

1. third-person singular present indicative of repentir

Latin

Verb

r?pent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of r?p?

English

Etymology

Latin pr?str?tus, past participle of pr?sternere (“to prostrate”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??st?e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??st?e?t/
• Hyphenation: pros?trate

Adjective

prostrate (not comparable)

1. Lying flat, face-down.

   Synonym: prone

   Antonym: supine

   • 1945, Sir Winston Churchill, VE Day speech from House of Commons:

     Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.

2. (figuratively) Emotionally devastated.
3. Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.

4. (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

Translations

Verb

prostrate (third-person singular simple present prostrates, present participle prostrating, simple past and past participle prostrated)

2. (often reflexive) To lie flat or face-down.
3. (also figuratively) To throw oneself down in submission.
4. To cause to lie down, to flatten.
5. (figuratively) To overcome or overpower.
   • 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

     Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief.

Usage notes

• Prostrate and prostate are often confused, in spelling if not in meaning.

Related terms

• prostration

Translations

See also

• kowtow

Anagrams

• Perrottas

Italian

Verb

prostrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of prostrare
2. second-person plural imperative of prostrare
3. feminine plural of prostrato

Latin

Participle

pr?str?te

1. vocative masculine singular of pr?str?tus