REPENTANCE Copy link • REPENTANCEpoenitentia (general term): *dolor ex peccatorum recordatione conceptus (in the theological sense). Repentance comes too late, sera aliquem subit poenitentia; celeris poenitentia, sed eadem sera atque inutilis sequitur: where repentance is not possible, unde receptum ad poenitentiam non babeas: so deep was his repentance, tanta vis fuit poenitendi (Curt.): *to leave room for repentance, poenitentiae relinquere locum.