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Type Words
Synonyms penitence, repentance
Type of self-reproach, compunction, remorse
Type Words
Synonyms self-abasement, self-mortification
Type of penalty, penalisation, penalization, punishment
Type Words
Type of sacrament
Has types confession

Examples of penance

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This halts his penance and pulls him into the investigation, but as an observer.
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Once their penance is complete, they will be allowed to go back to heaven again.
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This led to the practice of penance and pilgrimage as a means of curing illness.
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Brahmins, sages, ascetics according to their nature shall be absorbed in penance.
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Forgiveness, tolerance and penance must go everywhere with the recovering addict.
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Easter marks the end of Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.
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Their faces were hidden by purple cloths, shrouds the purple of Christian penance.
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Since then, Haynesworth has done his penance and has learned to channel his anger.
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His mission, he said, was to do penance at the deathbed of his 91-year-old father.
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More examples
  • Repentance: remorse for your past conduct
  • A Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
  • Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
  • Penance was an American doom metal band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Penance, in comics, may refer to: *Robbie Baldwin, a Marvel Comics superhero, formerly known as Speedball and now known as Penance *Penance (X-Men), a body now known as Hollow (renamed to avoid confusion with Baldwin), in which female members of the St Croix family have been imprisoned and taken ...
  • Sanctuary is a Canadian science fiction-fantasy television series created by Damian Kindler. It premiered on Syfy on October 3, 2008. Kindler originally created Sanctuary as an eight-part web series, but later it was adapted for television. ...
  • Robert "Robbie" Baldwin is a comic book superhero character, appearing in books published by Marvel Comics.
  • Hollow (formerly called Penance) is an apparently mindless body which three members of the St Croix family, all members of the Marvel Comics superhero team Generation X, had been trapped in at some time. The body possesses red diamond-like skin and rarely speaks.
  • A non Biblical sacramental rite involving contrition, confession to a priest, the acceptance of penalties, and absolution