penance

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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act
A sacrament in some Christian churches
punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of penitence
{n} a mortification, grief, atonement
a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
If you do penance for something wrong that you have done, you do something that you find unpleasant to show that you are sorry. a time of fasting, penance and pilgrimage
{i} self-imposed punishment; self-mortification, affliction; repentance
Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church
a form of punishment whereby one who has confessed his sins to a priest can obtain absolution
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
To impose penance; to punish
A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act
Pain; sorrow; suffering
remorse for your past conduct
Any voluntary act that results from repentance Penance is a concrete expression of gratitude for the forgiveness of a debt that can never in fact be repaid
Repentance
Good deeds that can lessen temporal punishment See Sins (Catholic)
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
penances
plural of penance
penance
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