resipiscence

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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 they might save their souls if not their lives.

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  1. Change to a better frame of mind; repentance. The term is never used for that regret of a vicious man at letting pass an opportunity of vice or crime which is sometimes called repentance. [Rare.] They drew a flattering picture of the resipiscence of the Anglican party. Hallam.

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  1. from Old French resipiscence, French resipiscence =Italian resipiscenza, from Latin resipiscentia, a change of mind, repentance (transitive Greek μετάυοια), from resipiscere, repent.
 

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