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Penance

Penance Meaning & Definition
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.

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