1) 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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1) Compensation 2) Penalty 3) Penitence 4) Repentance 5) Rite
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- remorse for your past conduct
- a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
- voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
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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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[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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• (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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Roman 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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1. 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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Pen'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....Found on
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Pen'ance transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Penanced .] To impose penance; to punish. 'Some
penanced lady elf.'
Keats. Found on
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n] - voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing 2. [n] - a Catholic sacrament
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the 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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see: Sacrament of Penance
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self-mortification noun voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
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Roman 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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Christian sacrament in which the Christian confesses sin and receives absolution.
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voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for something
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