penance

[PenĀ·ance]

Penance is the act of doing a good deed to make up for past wrongs. Shoveling your neighbor's sidewalk all winter could be your penance for not helping rake the leaves that dropped from your tree into his yard during the fall.

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Repentance.

Noun
a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution

Noun
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

Noun
remorse for your past conduct


n.
Repentance.

n.
Pain; sorrow; suffering.

n.
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.

v. t.
To impose penance; to punish.


Penance

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.
Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, And penance more will do."

Penance

Pen"ance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penanced .] To impose penance; to punish. "Some penanced lady elf." Keats.

Repentance.

To impose penance; to punish.

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Usage Examples

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

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