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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
penance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
do
▪ If found guilty, her head would be shaved and she would be required to do penance for life.
▪ Edwin did public penance, appearing, for a change, in church the next day.
▪ He whose sperm flows while he is sleeping shall do penance for three days.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Members of the order led a life of prayer, fasting, and penance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As penance, Gandhi fasted three days and asked his followers to fast twenty-four hours.
▪ He subsequently decided to do penance for the deed, and set off to his foundation at Agaune.
▪ She had spoken of a reward, not a penance!
▪ This device will say your penance for you automatically.
▪ When it was over, the penance would be unexpectedly light.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penance

Penance \Pen"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penanced.] To impose penance; to punish. ``Some penanced lady elf.''
--Keats.

Penance

Penance \Pen"ance\, n. [OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia repentance. See Penitence.]

  1. Repentance. [Obs.]
    --Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).

  2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] ``Joy or penance he feeleth none.''
    --Chaucer.

  3. (Eccl.) 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.
    --Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

    And bitter penance, with an iron whip.
    --Spenser.

    Quoth he, ``The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.''
    --Coleridge.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
penance

late 13c., "religious discipline or self-mortification as a token of repentance and as atonement for some sin," from Anglo-French penaunce, Old French peneance (12c.), from Latin pænitentia (see penitence). Transferred sense is recorded from c.1300.

Wiktionary
penance

n. 1 A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act. 2 A sacrament in some Christian churches. 3 (context obsolete English) repentance 4 (context obsolete English) pain; sorrow; suffering vb. To impose penance; to punish.

WordNet
penance

  1. n. remorse for your past conduct [syn: repentance, penitence]

  2. a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution

  3. voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing [syn: self-mortification, self-abasement]

Wikipedia
Penance

Penance is repentance of sins as well as the proper name of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, 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 paenitentia, both of which derive from the same root meaning repentance, the desire to be forgiven (in English see contrition). Penance and repentance, similar in their derivation and original sense, have come to symbolize conflicting views of the essence of repentance, arising from the controversy as to the respective merits of "faith" and " good works". Word derivations occur in many languages.

Penance (X-Men)

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.

Penance (comics)

Penance, in comics, may refer to:

  • Robbie Baldwin, a Marvel Comics superhero also known as Speedball, formerly 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 on the name Penance:
    • Monet St. Croix, better known as M
    • Nicole and Claudette St. Croix, better known as the M-Twins
    • Hollow, the Penance body has a personality of its own even without a host and operates independently
Penance (band)

Penance was an American doom metal band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Penance (disambiguation)

Penance is the religious notion of repentance.

Penance may also refer to:

  • Penance (film), a 2008 film
  • Penance (TV series), a 2012 Japanese miniseries
  • Penance (comics), several comic characters:
    • Robbie Baldwin
    • Penance (X-Men)
  • Penance (band), US doom metal band
  • Penance, a superboss in Final Fantasy X
  • "Penance" (Sanctuary)", an episode of Sanctuary
  • Penance Pass, a mountain pass in Victoria Land, Antarctica
Penance (film)

Penance is a 2009 horror film directed by Jake Kennedy. It stars Jason Connery, Marieh Delfino, Graham McTavish, and Michael Rooker. Horror film icon Tony Todd has a cameo role as a sinister chauffeur.

Penance (TV series)

Penance, known in Japanese as , is a Japanese television drama miniseries that started airing on WOWOW on January 2012. It is based on a novel of the same name by Kanae Minato and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

Penance (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.

Usage examples of "penance".

Judge must sentence her to an abjuration of all heresy, on pain of the punishment for backsliders, together with the perpetual penance, in the following manner.

Then he imposed a penance of prayer and fasting, and then absolved them.

But according to John 8 Christ absolved the adulterous woman without Penance.

Now it is evident that in Penance something is done so that something holy is signified both on the part of the penitent sinner, and on the part of the priest absolving, because the penitent sinner, by deed and word, shows his heart to have renounced sin, and in like manner the priest, by his deed and word with regard to the penitent, signifies the work of God Who forgives his sins.

It led them to settle on Ansatz in the forgiving dark, where they traded the fruits of their genius for dreams, in penance for the sins of their violent siblings.

Vyasa came to visit Yudhishthir, and advised Arjun, great archer as he was, to acquire celestial arms by penance and worship.

Others who approached to be baptized by John could not, indeed, confer anything on his baptism: yet neither did they receive anything therefrom, save only the sign of penance.

But if those who were recently baptized have injured their neighbor, they should be told to make reparation to God by works of penance.

I also told him that it was a penance to me to eat alone, and begged him to keep me company at dinner and supper every day.

Friday penance sessions in the gymnasium continued to delight him and prevent his boredom, for he attended them from his secret hiding place in the Snuggery and, at times, just as we have already described, crept out when the culprits were blindfold and pinioned, to feel their bosoms and bottoms and sometimes even, when the mood seized him, to fustigate their plump white backsides and revel in their squirmings and sobbing pleas for pardon.

Father Gerent and perform what penance he requires to atone for your sins.

Cantering back to that home of the loves of Gower Woodseer and Madge Winch, the thought of his first act of penance done, without his feeling the poorer for it, reconciled Fleetwood to the aspect of the hollow place.

As she was trying to recover her breath, she thought of sentencing me to a good penance: she hid herself behind a tree and told me, a minute afterwards, that I had to find her ring.

Before we parted we swore eternal friendship, but the reader will see before long what a penance the kind Englishman had to do for befriending me.

God would not have it so, and my confessor blamed me, bidding me to do a penance I had never expected.