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What's The Definition Of Penance?
[n] a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
[n] voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing [n] remorse for your past conduct Synonyms | Synonyms for Penance: penitence | repentance | self-abasement | self-mortification Related Terms | Find terms related to Penance: abject apology | amends | apology | asceticism | atone | atonement | attrition | baptism | change of heart | cold purgatorial fires | compensation | compunction | confirmation | contrition | Day of Atonement | deathbed repentance | do penance | extreme unction | fasting | flagellation | hair shirt | heartfelt apology | holy orders | lustration | maceration | make amends | matrimony | mea culpa | mortification | pay | penal retribution | penalization | penalty | penitence | penitential act | penitential exercise | penitently | price | punishment | purgation | purgatory | reformation | regret | remorse | remorsefulness | reparation | repentance | rue | ruth | sackcloth and ashes | saeta | self-mortification | self-punishment | seven sacraments | suffer | suffering | the Eucharist | wearing a hairshirt | Yom Kippur See Also | absolution | compunction | confession | penalisation | penalization | penalty | punishment | remission | remission of sin | remittal | remorse | sacrament | self-reproach Penance In Webster's Dictionary \Pen"ance\, n. [OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia
repentance. See {Penitence}.]
1. Repentance. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).
2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] ``Joy or penance he
feeleth none.'' --Chaucer.
3. (Eccl.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and
obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the
performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary
submission to a punishment corresponding to the
transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments
in the Roman Catholic Church. --Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
And bitter penance, with an iron whip. --Spenser.
Quoth he, ``The man hath penance done, And penance
more will do.'' --Coleridge.
\Pen"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Penanced}.] To impose penance; to punish. ``Some penanced lady elf.'' --Keats. |
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