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Penance logo #10101) Act of contrition 2) Act of remorse 3) Act of reparation 4) Act of repentance 5) Amends 6) Atonement for sins 7) Atoning punishment 8) Christian ethic 9) Christian term 10) Church discipline 11) Church term 12) Compunction 13) Confession follow-up 14) Fictional twin 15) Follower of sin, sometimes
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Penance

Penance logo #10101) Compensation 2) Penalty 3) Penitence 4) Repentance 5) Rite
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  1. remorse for your past conduct
  2. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
  3. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

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Penance

Penance logo #21000 Penance is repentance of sins as well as the proper name of the Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, and Anglican Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation/Confession. It also plays a part in non-sacramental confession among Lutherans and other Protestants. The word penance derives from Old French and Latin poenitentia, both of which derive from the ...
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Penance

Penance logo #21000[virtue] Penance in Christian theology is often seen a supernatural moral virtue whereby the sinner is disposed to hatred of his sin as an offence against God and to a firm purpose to make good any harm that has been done. ...
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Penance logo #21002• (n.) 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. • (n.) Repentance. • (n.) Pain; sorrow; suffering...
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penance logo #20688Roman Catholic sacrament, involving confession of sins and receiving absolution, and works performed (or punishment self-inflicted) in atonement for sin. Penance is worked out nowadays in terms of...
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penance logo #209731. Repentance. ... 2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. 'Joy or penance he feeleth none.' ... 3. 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 ...
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Penance logo #20972Pen'ance noun [ Old French penance , peneance , Latin paenitentia repentance. See Penitence .] 1. Repentance. [ Obsolete] Wyclif (Luke xv. 7). 2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [ Obsolete] 'Joy or penance he feeleth none.' Chaucer. 3....
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Penance logo #20972Pen'ance transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Penanced .] To impose penance; to punish. 'Some penanced lady elf.' Keats.
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penance logo #20400[n] - voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing 2. [n] - a Catholic sacrament
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penance logo #23047the sacrament by which Christians express sorrow for sin, and receive God's forgiveness. In Catholic practice done through confession to a priest (auricular confession) who confers absolution. Penance is also used to mean the action required to demonstrate true repentance: 'doing penance' by saying prayers, fasting etc.
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Penance logo #23045see: Sacrament of Penance
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penance logo #20974self-mortification noun voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
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penance logo #21221Roman Catholic sacrament, involving confession of sins and receiving absolution, and works performed (or punishment self-inflicted) in atonement for sin. Penance is worked out nowadays in terms of good deeds rather than routine repetition of prayers
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Penance logo #22984Christian sacrament in which the Christian confesses sin and receives absolution.
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penance logo #23665 voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for something
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