resipiscence

noun

literary acknowledgment that one has been mistaken

Derived Formsresipiscent, adjective

Word Origin for resipiscence

C16: from Late Latin resipiscentia, from resipiscere to recover one's senses, from Latin sapere to know

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Historical Examples of resipiscence

Resipiscence, res-i-pis′ens, n. change to a better frame of mind.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
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