On the Asiatic coast of the Bosporus she converted a palace into a spacious and stately monastery, known as the Convent of the metanoia, or Repentance, and richly endowed it for the benefit of her less fortunate sisters who had been seduced or compelled to embrace the trade of prostitution.
"Women of Early Christianity Woman: In all ages and in all countries, Vol. 3 (of 10)"
Alfred Brittain Mitchell Carroll
179 metanoia, or the penitent, otherwise called the figure of repentance.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
"A place of metanoia" implies here a radical change of the whole being rather than "repentance" as ordinarily understood.
"The Gnôsis of the Light"
F. Lamplugh