resipiscence

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RESIPIS'CENCE, noun [Latin resipisco, from resipio; re and sapio, to taste.] Properly, wisdom derived from severe experience; hence, repentance. [Little used.]
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