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penance
(encz) | penance,pokání n: Zdeněk Brož |
Penance
(gcide) | Penance \Pen"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penanced.]
To impose penance; to punish. "Some penanced lady elf."
--Keats.
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Penance
(gcide) | Penance \Pen"ance\, n. [OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia
repentance. See Penitence.]
1. Repentance. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).
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2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] "Joy or penance he feeleth
none." --Chaucer.
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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, imposed by a confessor or other
ecclesiastical authority. Penance is the fourth of seven
sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. --Schaff-Herzog
Encyc.
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And bitter penance, with an iron whip. --Spenser.
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Quoth he, "The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do." --Coleridge.
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4. Hence: Any act performed by a person to atone for an
offense to another; an act of atonement. [Colloq.]
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penance
(wn) | penance
n 1: remorse for your past conduct [syn: repentance,
penitence, penance]
2: a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement
and absolution
3: voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some
wrongdoing [syn: penance, self-mortification, {self-
abasement}] |
PENANCE
(bouvier) | PENANCE, eccl. law. An ecclesiastical punishment, inflicted by an
ecclesiastical court, for some spiritual offence. Ayl. Par. 420.
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penance
(encz) | penance,pokání n: Zdeněk Brož |
Penance
(gcide) | Penance \Pen"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penanced.]
To impose penance; to punish. "Some penanced lady elf."
--Keats.
[1913 Webster]Penance \Pen"ance\, n. [OF. penance, peneance, L. paenitentia
repentance. See Penitence.]
1. Repentance. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).
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2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] "Joy or penance he feeleth
none." --Chaucer.
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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, imposed by a confessor or other
ecclesiastical authority. Penance is the fourth of seven
sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. --Schaff-Herzog
Encyc.
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And bitter penance, with an iron whip. --Spenser.
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Quoth he, "The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do." --Coleridge.
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4. Hence: Any act performed by a person to atone for an
offense to another; an act of atonement. [Colloq.]
[PJC] |
Penanced
(gcide) | Penance \Pen"ance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penanced.]
To impose penance; to punish. "Some penanced lady elf."
--Keats.
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Penanceless
(gcide) | Penanceless \Pen"ance*less\, a.
Free from penance. [R.]
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penance
(wn) | penance
n 1: remorse for your past conduct [syn: repentance,
penitence, penance]
2: a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement
and absolution
3: voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some
wrongdoing [syn: penance, self-mortification, {self-
abasement}] |
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