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penance
A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act
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A sacrament in some Christian churches
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punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of penitence
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{n} a mortification, grief, atonement
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a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
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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
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{i} self-imposed punishment; self-mortification, affliction; repentance
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Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church
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a form of punishment whereby one who has confessed his sins to a priest can obtain absolution
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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
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To impose penance; to punish
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A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act
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Pain; sorrow; suffering
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remorse for your past conduct
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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
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Repentance
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Good deeds that can lessen temporal punishment See Sins (Catholic)
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voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
penance
a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing