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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, abject apology, amends, apology, asceticism, atone, atonement, attrition, baptism, change of heart, cold purgatorial fires, compensation, compunction, confirmation, contrition, 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 |
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Dictionary Results for penance: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
penance
n 1: remorse for your past conduct [syn: repentance,
penitence, penance]
2: a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement
and absolution
3: voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some
wrongdoing [syn: penance, self-mortification, self-
abasement]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Penance \Pen"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penanced.]
To impose penance; to punish. "Some penanced lady elf."
--Keats.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Penance \Pen"ance\, n. [OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia
repentance. See Penitence.]
1. Repentance. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).
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2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] "Joy or penance he feeleth
none." --Chaucer.
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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, imposed by a confessor or other
ecclesiastical authority. Penance is the fourth of seven
sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. --Schaff-Herzog
Encyc.
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And bitter penance, with an iron whip. --Spenser.
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Quoth he, "The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do." --Coleridge.
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4. Hence: Any act performed by a person to atone for an
offense to another; an act of atonement. [Colloq.]
[PJC]
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
PENANCE, eccl. law. An ecclesiastical punishment, inflicted by an
ecclesiastical court, for some spiritual offence. Ayl. Par. 420.
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Common Misspellings > |
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