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Penance

Penance Definition And Meaning
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.

Penance Definition And Meaning

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

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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