different between repent vs rebuke

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

From Middle English rebuken, from Anglo-Norman rebuker (“to beat back, repel”), from re- + Old French *buker, buchier, buschier (“to strike, hack down, chop”), from busche (“wood”), from Vulgar Latin buska (“wood, grove”), from Frankish *busc, *busk (“grove”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”); equivalent to re- +? bush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?bju?k/, /???bju?k/

Noun

rebuke (plural rebukes)

1. A harsh criticism.
   • 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

     There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.

Synonyms

• reproach, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand, admonition

Translations

Verb

rebuke (third-person singular simple present rebukes, present participle rebuking, simple past and past participle rebuked)

1. To criticise harshly; to reprove.

   O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath. (Psalm 6, BSB)

Synonyms

• reprimand, reproach, reprove, reprehend, admonish, criticise, berate, scold
• See also Thesaurus:criticize

Translations

Anagrams

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