Usage examples (3)

• In fact the long list of heresiarchs contains the name of only one who came to resipiscence: Berengarius.
• It was the object of the Inquisition that such people should not indeed be spared, but should not perish without a trial and without opportunity of resipiscence, so that...
• The medieval legislation, both ecclesiastical and secular, clearly distinguished between the punishment to be inflicted for the crime of apostasy and the means of instruction...