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penance Noun 1. voluntary self-punishment to make amends for a sin 2. RC Church a sacrament in which repentant sinners are forgiven provided they confess their sins to a priest and perform a penance [Latin paenitentia repentance]
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penance noun atonement, punishment, penalty, reparation, expiation, sackcloth and ashes, self-punishment, self-mortification |
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| There be monks in Russia, for penance, that will sit a whole night in a vessel of water, till they be engaged with hard ice. That is my crime, Father Brown, and I don't know what penance you would inflict for it. Goddard's accordingly the very next day, to undergo the necessary penance of communication; and a severe one it was. |
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