My father has repented him ere now.
Dryden.
3. To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally. [Archaic]
"And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth." Gen. vi.
6.
Re*pent"ance (r*pnt"ans), n. [F. repentance.] The act of repenting, or
the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to
do; especially, contrition for sin. Chaucer.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.