Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-PENT', v.t.

1. To remember with sorrow; as, to repent rash words; to repent an injury done to a neighbor; to repent follies and vices. [See Repentance.]
2. With the reciprocal pronoun. [Fr. se repentir.] No man repented him of his wickedness. – Jer. viii. [This form of expression is now obsolete.]