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n. An act of self-mortification or devotion performed voluntarily to show sorrow for a sin or other wrongdoing.

n. A sacrament in some Christian churches that includes contrition, confession to a priest, acceptance of punishment, and absolution. Also called reconciliation.

v. To impose penance upon.

n. A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.

n. A sacrament in some Christian churches.

v. To impose penance; to punish.

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, imposed by a confessor or other ecclesiastical authority. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.

n. Any act performed by a person to atone for an offense to another; an act of atonement.

v. To impose penance; to punish.

n. Penitence; repentance.

n. Sorrow for sin shown by outward acts; self-punishment expressive of penitence or repentance; the suffering to which a person voluntarily subjects himself, as by fasting, flagellation, self-imposed tasks, etc., as an expression of penitence; the outward acts by which sorrow for sin is shown.

n. Eccles., sorrow for sin shown by outward acts under authority and regulation of the church; contrition manifested by confession and satisfaction and entitling to absolution; hence, absolution ensuing upon contrition and confession with satisfaction or purpose of satisfaction.

n. The penalty or discipline imposed by the priest in the above sacrament.

n. Hence Any act of austerity or asceticism practised with a religious motive.

n. Suffering; sorrow; misery.

n. An instrument or means of self-punishment used by persons undergoing penance either inflicted or voluntary.

n. To show one's self repentant by submitting to the punishment of censure or suffering.

To inflict penance upon; discipline by penance.

n. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution

n. remorse for your past conduct

n. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

""_I say to you_, says our Saviour, _there shall be joy in Heaven upon one sinner that doth penance; more than upon ninety-nine just, who need not penance_, [5] and so the state of redemption is a hundred times better than that of innocence."

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