penance|penances in English

noun

[pen·ance || 'penəns]

self-imposed punishment; self-mortification, affliction; repentance

Use "penance|penances" in a sentence

1. The priests would also hear confession and give penances.

2. Now do your penance.

3. How severe was such penance?

4. They are doing penance for their sins.

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

6. We prayed and did penance together.

7. I'll say some prayers as penance later

8. You have given me a lifelong penance.

9. Some amongst them enjoy objects of the senses and then once more set themselves to the practice of the Austerest penances, and once again, like the Sun (withdrawing his rays), withdraw themselves from such penances.

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

11. The sentence was imprisonment and penances until his death, which occurred nine years later.

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

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

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

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

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

17. Shall be by him amerced with penance due.

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

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

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

21. Synonyms for Amercements include penalties, damages, mulcts, forfeiture, punishment, forfeits, penances, fines, sanction and amends

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

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

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

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