Meaning of PENANCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'penuns
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | penitence, repentance, self-abasement, self-mortification |
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| | See Also: | | absolution, compunction, confession, penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment, remission, remission of sin, remittal, remorse, sacrament, self-reproach | |
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\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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