Repent: Verb
1. To feel sorry, self-reproachful, or contrite for past conduct; regret or be conscience stricken about a past action, attitude, etc.
2. To feel such sorry for sin or fault as to be disposed to change one's life for the better; be penitent.
3. To remember or regard with self-reproach or contrition.
Contrite: Adjective
1. Caused by showing sincere remorse.
2. Filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement, penitent.
Atonement: Noun
1. Satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends.
2. The doctrine concerning the reconciliation of God and humankind especially as accomplished through the life, suffering and death of Christ.
3. The experience of humankind of unity with God exemplified by Jesus Christ.
4. Reconciliation; agreement.
Sin: Noun
1. Transgression of divine law.
2. Any act regarded as such a transgression, especially a willful or deliberate violation of some religious or moral principle.
3. Any reprehensible or regrettable action, behavior, lapse, etc.; great fault or offense.
Source: Dictionary.com
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