Thesaurus: penance

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1. n. Repentance.
2. n. Pain; sorrow; suffering.
3. 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.
4. v. t. To impose penance; to punish.
5. n. remorse for your past conduct
6. n. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
7. n. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
8. A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon forit, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partlyin voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to thetransgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the RomanCatholic 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.
9. n:100 n. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution n. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing