penance in English

noun
1
voluntary self-punishment inflicted as an outward expression of repentance for having done wrong.
he had done public penance for those hasty words
2
a Christian sacrament in which a member of the Church confesses sins to a priest and is given absolution.
The penitent then leaves the confessional and goes and prays his penance in the church.
verb
1
impose a penance on.
a hair shirt to penance him for his folly in offending

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "penance" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "penance", or refer to the context using the word "penance" in the English Dictionary.

1. Now do your penance.

2. How severe was such penance?

3. They are doing penance for their sins.

4. But doing penance is something authentic and effective only if it is translated into deeds and acts of penance.

5. We prayed and did penance together.

6. I'll say some prayers as penance later

7. You have given me a lifelong penance.

8. Recession, they reason a penance for past profligacy.

9. Working in the garden was a kind of penance.

10. She knelt at her mother's feet in penance.

11. He appreciated their penance and sacrifice, amid harsh conditions.

12. This device will say your penance for you automatically.

13. They had confessed their sins and done their penance.

14. Shall be by him amerced with penance due.

15. Recession, they reason, must be a penance for past profligacy.

16. She had spoken of a reward, not a penance!

17. When it was over, the penance would be unexpectedly light.

18. The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.

19. Poverty for us is a freedom mortification, a penance.

20. He decided to do public penance for his sins.

21. I think you should serve my meal first as penance.

22. Just to look at it was to do penance for her failures.

23. Inner Focus: Now works properly with Mind Flay , Mind Sear, and Penance.

24. Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.

25. Members of the order led a life of prayer, fasting, and penance.

26. Are you willing to do penance for your sins, my son?

27. She regards living in New York as a penance; she hates big cities.

28. 22 Inner Focus: Now works properly with Mind Flay , Mind Sear, and Penance.

29. In penance, Nynex has this month been forced to pay customers a rebate.

30. And now I must live my life in penance, praying for forgiveness.

31. As a penance, she said she would buy them all a box of chocolates.

32. Myrrh has been associated with bitter repentance , mortification of the flesh, and penance.

33. He attended Canterbury in sackcloth and ashes as an act of public penance.

34. She made him do the washing-up as penance for forgetting her birthday.

35. Alberta does lakes and mountains like Rome does cathedrals and chapels, but without the penance

36. He whose sperm flows while he is sleeping shall do penance for three days.

37. The ‘fire’ of his Austerities, the psychic energy released by his penance, grew fierce

38. As penance, Gandhi fasted three days and asked his followers to fast twenty-four hours.

39. He devoted his life to helping the poor as a penance for his past crimes.

40. Dan led us in a group prayer of penance, and said a prayer of absolution.

41. He subsequently decided to do penance for the deed, and set off to his foundation at Agaune.

42. Synonyms for Amercement include penalty, damages, mulct, forfeiture, punishment, sanction, fine, forfeit, penance and financial penalty

43. 20 He devoted his life to helping the poor as a penance for his past crimes.

44. If found guilty, her head would be shaved and she would be required to do penance for life.

45. His penance was to build an inn and hospital for the poor at the mouth of a river.

46. The movement of the Cenacles of Life is a way of fulfilling Our Lady's request for prayer and penance

47. The life of the anchoress was hard but she did not necessarily give herself over to excessive penance.

48. The leaders of the people of God have neglected prayer and penance, and the devil has Bedimmed their intelligence

49. In fact, if we don't Abstain from meat on non-Lenten Fridays, we're required to substitute some other form of penance

50. Contemplative definition is - marked by or given to contemplation; specifically : of or relating to a religious order devoted to prayer and penance