penance
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈpɛnəns/
:
penitencia
- After realizing his mistakes, he sought penance by volunteering at the shelter every weekend.
- public penance
- penance for sin
- act of penance
My hesitation and using the word rules is that he is deposed once and forced to go undergo public penance twice.
- My hesitation and using the word rules is that he is deposed once and forced to go undergo public penance twice.
- This relationship is not a hair shirt or an act of penance or a seminar in working through your past life or a past relationship or a past anything.
- And you may even feel that perhaps this relationship is sort of your penance or your bad luck and you stick it out so you don't have to feel like a bad person.
- Unless it's long enough penance to pay, you can't be the Phoenix unless you burn.
- And that's when the trips are beautiful, but only because I went through the, I stuck with the, the early penance of it.
Examples
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Though his language was strong, his goal was to call people to penance and to reform their behavior.
Academic text (2004) -
The essential part of penance is a firm and true repentance, motivated by faith and the love of God.
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And, after I said my penance, I felt better.
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This is more of a penance than you think.
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Some penance is in order.
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Just think of it as penance if that makes it easier for you.
Fiction book (1997) -
And now you must pay your penance.
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Hasn't this trip been penance enough?
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The entire community of Christians was called upon to undergo self-examination and penance: no one and no community is exempt.
Academic text (2004) -
Part of his penance was to provide a perpetual endowment for the support of scholars at Oxford.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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4.5
A deep, painful feeling of regret and guilt after doing something wrong
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6.6
A feeling of deep regret and a wish to change after doing wrong
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7.5
A way to make things right after doing something wrong
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6.8
Giving money or help to make up for a wrong
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8.4
A deep feeling of regret and sorrow for something you did wrong
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7.9
A feeling of being sorry for something you did wrong
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9.3
To do something to make up for a wrong and show you are sorry
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9.3
Act of making yourself feel ashamed to show you are sorry
A deep feeling of regret and sorrow for doing something wrong
A practice of hurting yourself on purpose to show discipline or say sorry, often for religious reasons
Antonyms
How Repentant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Penance comes from the Latin paenitentia, from paenitere, meaning 'to be sorry' or 'repent'. So penance is a feeling or an action you do to show regret and try to make things right.